Creative Reception Quotes

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.

I guess my stuff needs to grow on people. Too bad! That seems to happen with all of it.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film... if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called establishment? They hate me.

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.

It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people don't like your music, that's kind of your problem.

It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.