“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
“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.” PeopleMenMadeSelfMatterWould BeWantedUsedGrowsActingAudienceLaughingGrowing UpFrontsHe ManLoversSceneConsciousUncomfortableSelf ConsciousMy Lover Author:Billy Crystal
“There's no major label in the world that would have let me make video game music, then conscious hip hop. They want you to find your audience, your lane, and stay in it until it ends. I can't do that.” WorldWantI CanEndsGamesAudienceMajorsConsciousLet MeHip HopVideoHipsLabelsHopsLanes Author:Raheem Jarbo
“The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the first time. You can change it by just a look or things you're not even conscious of, but it's such a full immersion.” AudienceConsciousFirst Time Author:Gretchen Mol
“Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.” PeopleKnowsFeelsSelfHardHomeJobsLinesActingAudienceConsciousMy FamilyPerformancesDrawingOddCartoonGigsSelf ConsciousPresentingCollision Author:Dylan Moran