In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator. [ Degerando ]
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. [ Tuckerman ]
Truth is one, forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. [ Hazlitt ]
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. [ Magendie ]
Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders. [ Goldsmith ]
I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presetted unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. [ Burton ]
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]