Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.1,1 Mar.

La eternidad rotativa puede parecer atroz al espectador; es satisfactoria para sus individuos. Libres de malas noticias y de enfermedades, viven siempre como si fuera la primera vez, sin recordar las anteriores. A circular eternity may seem atrocious to the spectator, but it is satisfactory to individuals inside. Free from bad news and disease, theyalways live as if it were the first time, and do not remember previous times.

-Bioy Casares, Adolfo
  La invencio¤  n de Morel ( The Invention of Morel,1964).

Soit donc que vous composiez, soit donc que vous jouiez, ne pensez non plus au spectateur que s'il n'existait pas. Imaginez sur le bord du the¤  a"  tre, un grand mur qui vous se¤  pare du parterre; jouez comme si la toile ne se levait pas. Whether you compose or act, think no more of the spectator than if he did not exist. Imagine at the edge of the stage a large wall which separates you from the orchestra; act as if the curtain never rose.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique, introducing the theatrical concept of the'fourth wall'.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

-Ernst, Max
Quoted in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

I have covered boxing, promoted boxing, watched it, thought about it, and after long reflection I cannot find a single thing that isgood about it either from the point of view of participant or spectator.

-Gallagher, Noel
Quoted in Edith Summerskill The Ignoble Art (1956).

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

-Gergen, David Richmond
  In US News &  World Report,10 May.