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Joseph Conrad2 quotes

One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader. — Joseph Conrad · 1897 My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything. — Joseph Conrad · 1897

Bridget Riley1 quote

My work is completed by the viewer. — Bridget Riley · 2008

Daphne du Maurier1 quote

The actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. — Daphne du Maurier · 1980

Dorothea Lange1 quote

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. — Dorothea Lange

James Turrell1 quote

Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it. — James Turrell · 2013

Janis Joplin1 quote

Onstage I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin · 1971

Lester Bangs1 quote

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. — Lester Bangs · 1977

Marcel Duchamp1 quote

I have a very definite theory-let's call it theory, so that I can be wrong-that a work of art exists only when the spectator has looked at it. — Marcel Duchamp

Mark Rothko1 quote

The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. — Mark Rothko

Mitch Hedberg1 quote

You know you can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show. — Mitch Hedberg · 1999

Rebecca West1 quote

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. — Rebecca West · 1957

Richard Wright1 quote

I let the audience follow me, if it is interested. — Richard Wright · 1995

Robert Frost1 quote

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. — Robert Frost · 1939

Zhang Huan1 quote

I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible. — Zhang Huan · 2000