“That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.” ArtistNaturalAudienceConsciousObviousGreat ArtGreat Artist Author:Steve Vai
“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.” ThinkingSelfMistakeAudienceToo MuchConsciousMaking MistakesSelf ConsciousThinking Too Much Book:Inception: The Shooting Script Source: Inception: The Shooting Script
“Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.” HumansSometimesHuman BeingsForgetAudienceConsciousComedianPerforming Author:Jeff Garlin
“When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.” IfsWayWritingMomentsMightLostBreakAudienceSceneConsciousScreensConfusedJust OneConcentrationHyper Author:Salman Rushdie
“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.” MenHas BeensSelfWholeEyeAnimalRaceAudienceDogPositionGrewConsciousCatIndependenceSlaveryRagePreservesGentlemanConsiderationAffectedAppetiteHuntingLeisurePlatesBetrayedSelf ConsciousRenunciationSatellites Book:Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21 Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own.” ArtSoulPlayUseArtistChoicesAcceptingAudienceShareColorConsciousSeriesNotesPaintRejectsWorks Of ArtSubstitutes Author:Leonard Pitts
“When you take on Hitchcock you know it's gonna provoke some sort of controversy, because there were so many people talking about the book [Stephen Rebello's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho] and wanting it to be the film about the making of this movie [Psycho]. But that's been done. That's been done in the book, and Stephen Rebello himself was like, "I want a movie which is an entertainment for the audience." So we made the conscious decision.” PeopleKnowsWantMadeBookDoneFilmDecisionTalkingAudienceConsciousEntertainmentProvokingControversyPsychoHitchcockPeople Talking Author:Sacha Gervasi