Quotes About Audience

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

Stage performing is a dying art form.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.

You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do the same for others.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

My art became very public.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.