997 Quotes About Audience

This is the responsibility we all owe to ourselves– that the purpose of our existence be to positively affect others with our gift and this does not begin when we feel we have become “something”. It begins when we decide to pick our gift and align it with it’s purpose.

Whatever you do for the purpose of impacting on others, no matter how little you think it to be or how little your audience may seem, it not only grows but it leaves a lifetime effect which sets you up on greater grounds of success more than you ever anticipated.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.

Be weary of those who only perform when there is an audience.

Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness.

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.

Life is nothing but a drama and you are the performer and the audience; enjoy the show.

Henderson promoted an idea that we could all be the center of attention all the time. But if everyone is onstage, who's in the audience?