Quotes About Audience

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience!

What's my dilemma here? Am I making entertainment or am I making art? What am I saying? At the end of the day, cinema is entertainment for millions of people, but for me it's expression.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!

I don't want to sit there and be like, 'Oh, I don't care what the audience thinks.' It does matter to me. I just want them to think, to be honest.

When I'm passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Florida has become The Joke State, the state everybody makes fun of. If states were characters on Seinfeld, Florida would be Kramer: Every time it appears, the audience automatically laughs, knowing it's going to do some idiot thing.