Following is our list of the most famous voyeur quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational voyeur quotes. Hopefully, these voyeur quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your voyeur knowledge!
I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back. — Judy Garland
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. — Carl Jung
Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance. — Michel Foucault
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans
There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal. — Dave Attell
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Be silent in a group of people
See what they reveal to you. — Yoko Ono
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. — Albert Camus
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. — Dagobert D. Runes
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. — John Le Carre
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere. — Paramahansa Yogananda
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. — Sigmund Freud
Short Voyeur Quotes
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. — Paul Fleischman
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money. — Albert Brooks
The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial. — Alan Rickman
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. — Andy Warhol
I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church. — Pierre Trudeau
Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it's just always funny to watch people. — James Murray
... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods. — Brassai
Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places. . . . gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis. — Gay Talese
Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. — Jean Baudrillard
The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. — Chris Hedges
There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy. — Ryan Reynolds
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism. — Martha Rosler
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to. — Rowan Atkinson
'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.' — Marlon Wayans
Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world. — Allan Sekula
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone. — Laurel Nakadate
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you. — Claire Danes
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism. — Simon Winchester
That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of chamber of commerce voyeurs who support the public prints. — Hunter S. Thompson
How many times have we seen reality celebrities fall from grace - often through no fault of their own - and then go on a show like 'Celebrity Big Brother' and say, 'I want to show the public a different side of me.' And I'm screaming at the telly going, 'This is not therapy. This is voyeurism!' — Ricky Gervais
I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think. — David Lynch
I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance. — Emma Donoghue
I think reality TV is so popular because it makes everyone in the country feel like, 'Hey, I can be on TV. I can be a star overnight.' I think America also has a little voyeurism in their hearts. — Shanna Moakler
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt. — Zadie Smith
There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to feel like a fly on the wall and hear about people's lives. — Chris Gethard
I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality. — Emma Donoghue
Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers, and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyles, so why should homosexuals get such privileges? — James Dobson
Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer. — Alec Soth
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become. — Margaret Atwood
You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur. — Nicole Kidman
There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. — James Wolcott
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