Quotes About Popularity

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.

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.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Art should never be popular.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

You're only popular with anorexia.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

I really, really like Suzana Delgado, who is the most beautiful girl in the eighth grade and probably the world. She has like 183 million Instagram followers.

So for some reason everybody makes this huge deal about pandas. I don't know why. They never actually do anything except eat and poop. But they're really famous.' 'Yeah, said Suzana. 'They're like the Kardashians of zoo animals.