Quotes About Reception

I've been around long enough now that people who don't get into the outrageousness, the over-the-top stuff, they know not to buy my books anymore.

I tried to change my style a few years ago because people didn't like the over-the-top thing.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

Seréis nuestros invitados hasta que os canséis de nuestra hospitalidad.

Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Mary, radiant, her charm turned to its brightest candle-power, is greeting the Blairs, who are part of a long receiving line.

There's tense applause. Some of the black guests bow; most aren't sure how to respond.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

Everyone has come to celebrate her return. They will go home and talk about it forever, unto the next generation. But they will not come here and ask about her welfare.

She received it as a god is received

Toda bendición no aceptada se transforma en maldición

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

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.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast!

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.