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Quotes about Audience

6 quotes about audience, from Anton Chekhov, David Ogilvy, Paul Graham and others.

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Anton Chekhov
1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.
Paul Graham
Films like 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Shrek' are hits because they hit on different levels with different age groups. Striking that balance is what I strive for. But I won't know if I've done it until the audience sees it.
Kelly Asbury
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Jerry Saltz

Most quoted on audience

  • Anton Chekhov1
  • David Ogilvy1
  • Paul Graham1
  • Ben Hecht1
  • Jerry Saltz1
  • Kelly Asbury1
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Ben Hecht
If you want to reach a large audience appeal to idiots.
David Ogilvy

See also

Where audience leads

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  • Art 150 quotes
  • Wisdom 420 quotes
  • Appeal 2 quotes
  • Intelligence 104 quotes
  • Clarity 65 quotes
  • Choice 164 quotes
  • Incomprehensibility 1 quotes
  • Film 4 quotes

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