Shia LaBeouf Quotes

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

The public is never wrong.

Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'

The public is always right.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

When politicians try to govern by raising a wet finger to the wind or on the basis of public opinion polling, the public gets to think that all leaders are interchangeable.