Top 100 Quotes About The Viewer
#1. Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.
Noah Hawley
#3. I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.
Stephen Huneck
#4. You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.
Steven Brust
#5. Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.
Ken Danby
#6. [In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.
Walker Percy
#7. The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts ... they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.
Tony Verna
#8. At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.
John Lasseter
#9. I decided that a story was anything that I made up that kept the reader turning the pages or watching, and did not leave the reader or the viewer feeling cheated at the end.
Neil Gaiman
#10. If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
Antoni Tapies
#11. The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.
Richie Benaud
#12. The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
Steven Pinker
#13. A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.
Max Kellerman
#14. I talk about things from the perspective of the consumer - mostly because that's what I am. A guy going out and buying things and sharing that experience with the viewer. Nothing should change that, but if it ever does, I'll absolutely make it known.
Marques Brownlee
#15. There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.
Julie Anne Long
#16. Violence is so terribly fast ... the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous ... the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.
Jim Carroll
#17. The apologists for the medium claim that all sorts of interesting information is provided by television. This is true, but as it is much easier to produce programs that titillate rather than elevate the viewer, what most people watch is unlikely to help in developing the self.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#18. I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
Damien Hirst
#19. The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
Doug Aitken
#20. Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, "What do you see in this work?" The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.
Dale B. Martin
#21. The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
Guido Molinari
#22. Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
Shawn Ryan
#23. I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.
Michael Haneke
#24. The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.
Leland Bell
#25. The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.
Terry Bradshaw
#26. There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
Anish Kapoor
#27. Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
Robert Genn
#28. You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
Nigel Kneale
#29. Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
William Albert Allard
#31. I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.
Stefano Langone
#32. A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer's perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts.
Steven Pinker
#33. The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.
Philip Guston
#35. Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it
implicitly congratulates both itself and the viewer (for making the joke and
getting the joke, respectively).
David Foster Wallace
#36. Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Anselm Kiefer
#37. It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.
Cary Fukunaga
#38. I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
Alec Soth
#39. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
Bruno Dumont
#40. I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.
Keith Carter
#41. Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
Richard Serra
#42. In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.
John Walford
#43. Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.
David A.R. White
#44. Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Edward R. Tufte
#45. I don't believe that people are robots. I think you should try to get personal, try to put yourself in the film in a deep way, and try to give that to the viewer, even if some of them will not connect with that kind of universe and surreality.
Miguel Gomes
#46. I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
Peter Saul
#47. If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.
Luc Tuymans
#48. If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
Rockwell Kent
#49. A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
Thomas Kinkade
#50. You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
Claude Lelouch
#51. Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.
Hugh Hardy
#52. Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
Edward J. Fraughton
#53. I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
Richard Serra
#54. Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
Michael Haneke
#55. The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin
#56. An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.
Chris F. Westbury
#57. The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.
Ben Edwards
#58. When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn't think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Aaron Siskind
#60. The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
Jessica Savitch
#61. 'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.
Frances Stark
#62. There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams
#63. [W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.
Harold Feinstein
#64. IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#65. With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.
Jim Coleman
#66. I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.
Henry Rollins
#67. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be ... more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive
Robert A. Heinlein
#68. One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.
Mary Harron
#69. In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
Orhan Pamuk
#70. The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.
Agnieszka Holland
#71. I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.
John Van Hamersveld
#72. Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
Jeff Koons
#73. I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Chuck Close
#74. A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.
Martin Schoeller
#75. If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
James Nachtwey
#76. She looks clumsy, beautiful. It's a beauty that could pierce the most delicate regions of the heart of the viewer.
Haruki Murakami
#77. Every tattoo should tell a story of the person inside. Each is open to interpretation to the viewer. No one has to know the real meaning if you don't want them to.
Charisse Spiers
#78. It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
Christopher Lee
#79. What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.
Chris Jordan
#80. What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.
Gerhard Richter
#81. A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don't see-see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see-where a photographer, if he's good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn't expect to see.
Leon Levinstein
#82. A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Irving Penn
#83. To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams
#84. As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams
#86. The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
Lee Siegel
#87. I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.
Rashid Johnson
#88. When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.
Alison Jackson
#89. I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
Jeff Koons
#90. A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
John Berger
#91. Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
Robert Mankoff
#92. If my life were a movie ... the title sequence would start out like a typical high school story, but then reveal that something's amiss. There'd be a tight shot, or piece of dialogue, or something that would make the viewer uncomfortable. Something to give them that prickly feeling.
-Dez
Dawn Klehr
#93. Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
Mike Rowe
#94. My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.
Wolf Blitzer
#95. The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.
Hideo Kojima
#96. I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
Ellsworth Kelly
#97. I've always wanted to be a songwriter and a storyteller and somebody who conveys a feeling to the listener or the viewer.
Wes Borland
#98. I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.
Joseph Raffael
#99. Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Jeff VanderMeer
#100. I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more.
Stephen Shore
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