Audience Quotes - Page 9

• Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

  Ken Danby

  Inspire

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• The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

  Moses Hadas

  Quality, Needs, Taste

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• I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stopping, Way

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• Many great writers address audiences who do not exist; to address passionately and sometimes with very great wisdom people who do not exist has this advantage - that there will always be a group of people who, seeing a man shouting apparently at somebody or other, and seeing nobody else in sight, will think it is they who are being addressed.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Sight

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• An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Pieces, Alive

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous.  Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.

  Lester Beall

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

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• I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to give them an experience where they feel, 'Oh, my gosh, that's me, that's my story, they know!' then you've done your job.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Giving, Acting

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• Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

  Jerry Garcia

  Strong, Suits

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• You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

  William Friedkin

  Antiques, Want, Painting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

  Sam Mendes

  Bombarded By, Want, Sometimes

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• We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

  Vince McMahon

  Listening, Pulse, Events

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• Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

  Gene Ween

  Money, Way, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

  Diane Wakoski

  Women, Writing, Thinking

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• The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

  Leo Kottke

  Guitar, Giving, Relief

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• A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

  Pete Townshend

  Want, Pretending, Want Me

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• You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

  Cornelia Parker

  Artwork, Living Things, Propositions

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• Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

  David Carradine

  Training, Actors, Kind

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• Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

  Shelley Berman

  Comedian, Albums, Performances

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• My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

  Arthur Miller

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Moving, Unhappy

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• It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

  Gavin Bryars

  Talking, Peers, Paper

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Should Have, Taste, Pardon

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• I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Members, Exciting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?

  Margaret Atwood

  Artist, Mad, People

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

  Marilyn Manson

  Desire, World, Ugly

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