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• The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

  Antoni Tapies

  Artist, Perspective, Experience

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• Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Communication, Needs, Knows

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• There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Real, Perception, Levels

  "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin". Direct Art Magazine, Vol. 13, p. 86, Fall-Winter 2006.

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• An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

  Robert Genn

  Quality, Titles, Action

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• 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

  Finishing, Links, Canvas

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

  Anish Kapoor

  Circles, Stories, Involvement

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• I thought I would call myself a pig before the viewer could, so they could only think more of me.

  Jeff Koons

  Thinking, Pigs, Criticism

  Mark Lawrence Rosenthal, Marla Prather, Ian Alteveer, Rebecca Lowery, Polly Apfelbaum (2012). “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years”, p.195, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation.

  Jeff Koons

  Trying, Participation, Feels

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• We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and walks of life wrote to us, including actresses, stand-up comics, parents and students. What's clear after reading the entries is the impact that call-ins have had on the political conversation on the network.

  Brian Lamb

  Reading, Impact, Parent

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• No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall.

  Matt Smith

  Mountain, Balance, Desert

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• A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

  Eric Fischl

  Should Have, Hell, Precision

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

  Robert Genn

  Deception, Facts, Needs

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• 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

  Imagination, Creative, Important

  Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

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• I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

  Jim Lehrer

  Two, Together, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

  Bell Hooks

  Media, Black, Would Be

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• Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator...
  Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
  Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creative, Doe

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• Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too... The entire Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sarcastic, Play, Hype

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• 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

  Eye, People, Littles

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• Loving and appreciative, researched to a fare-thee-well, and pitched to both fans and first-time viewers of Singin' in the Rain, this delightful book delivers almost as much fun as the film itself.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Fun, Rain, Book

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• Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

  Art Buchwald

  Real, Media, Play

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• I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the viewer’s interpretation. It’s very strange to pour your heart out onto canvas and then put it on display for the whole world to see.

  Lori Earley

  Heart, Mean, World

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Giving

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• Viewers all over the world, whatever medium you are using to view us, on Emmanuel TV, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, I command a new dream to come true, in Jesus' name!

  T. B. Joshua

  Dream, Jesus, Views

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• Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. Star Trek and Spock, if they are works of art, can be discussed. But finally the response comes in individual terms. Each viewer sees what is there for him, depending on his frame of reference.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Stars, Inspiration

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• The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

  Saraha

  Two, Vision, Lamps

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