Quotes About Viewer

#1. 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

#2. Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Ken Danby

#3. [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

#4. 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

#5. Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.

Ariana Richards

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. As a viewer I came of age during a time when cast members were prone to fistfights. So I may be carrying a little of that kind of image in my head.

Scott Raab

#11. The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Steven Pinker

#12. 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

#13. Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

Alexander Isley

#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. In our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)

Milan Kundera

#19. I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Damien Hirst

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

Guido Molinari

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

Jerry Lewis

#26. The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

Leland Bell

#27. 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

#28. There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.

Anish Kapoor

#29. Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

Robert Genn

#30. Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

Jamie Dornan

#31. Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

Kiki Smith

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance.

Jerry White

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Christian Morgenstern

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Frederick Lenz

#41. It's the viewer that makes the work.

Marcel Duchamp

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

Alex Karpovsky

#48. I would prefer as a viewer to watch the mistakes. I am my own blooper reel, as it happens.

Craig Ferguson

#49. Postmodernism shifts the basis of the work of art from the object to the transaction between the spectator and the object and further deconstructs this by negating the presence of a representative objective viewer.

Arnold Aronson

#50. I'm fond of implied narratives, oblique angles, and leaving a little room for the viewer to finish a picture.

Keith Carter

#51. I don't mind ratings boards. As a viewer, you have the right not to see a film.

Takashi Miike

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Ziggy Marley

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

William Devane

#60. The objective.. is to achieve a comfort level between the cook/artist/performer and the customer/viewer/diner. And if we can achieve that, and the customers are happy and the cooks are happy, then we have a great experience.

Mario Batali

#61. 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

#62. If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Rockwell Kent

#63. The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

Kara Walker

#64. A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

Thomas Kinkade

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I'm not a huge viewer of anything.

Lucy Griffiths

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

Fay Godwin

#72. An angel is an empty comic book thought bubble. The content has to be filled in by the viewer.

Chris F. Westbury

#73. Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.

Noah Hawley

#74. remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information.

Joseph McMoneagle

#75. I'm thrilled to continue the tradition of the spectacular, cinematic, horrifying, exciting and emotional storytelling of 'The Walking Dead.' I'm a huge fan of the comics, and started with the show on the other side of the set, as an avid viewer.

Scott M. Gimple

#76. The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

Lee Siegel

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

J.G. Ballard

#81. The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

Jerry Saltz

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. The median-aged CNN viewer is 60. For Fox, it's 68.

Anonymous

#86. 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

#87. As a viewer of TV shows, I always like shows more when I just feel like the people in charge have a plan. You can just tell sometimes, 'Oh, there's a plan there. They have an idea for how this is going to unfold.'

Michael Schur

#88. It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Shane Carruth

#89. 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

#90. Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jeff Koons

#91. 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

#92. If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is ... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.

Tim Heidecker

#93. 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

#94. Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.

Jessica Biel

#95. For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing ... the final tipping balance.

Jonathan Franzen

#96. Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

Jeff Probst

#97. 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

#98. As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

Casey Neistat

#99. 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

#100. 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