Artist and audience

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One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

Joseph Conrad

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Topic

Interpretation and analysis Artist and audience

Author

Joseph Conrad

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Letter to Cunninghame Graham. 5 Aug. 1897.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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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

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Artist and audience

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

The Nigger of the Narcissus

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

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

Mitch Hedberg

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Artist and audience

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Comedy Central Presents

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

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Onstage I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Artist and audience

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Janis Joplin

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Joplin, Janis. Quoted in The New Yorker Magazine. 14 Aug. 1971.

5 of 15

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

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Topic

Artist and audience Writing

Author

Robert Frost

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

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

Dorothea Lange

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Artist and audience Art

Speaker

Dorothea Lange

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. Interviewed by Mark Durden. Phaidon Press, 2006, introduction, n.p.

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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lester Bangs

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Topic

Artist and audience Audience

Author

Lester Bangs

Source

Village Voice

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bangs, Lester. "How Long Will We Care?" The Village Voice, 29 Aug. 1977.

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My work is completed by the viewer.

Bridget Riley

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Topic

Artistic process Artist and audience Art

Speaker

Bridget Riley

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Riley, Bridget. "The Life of Riley." Interviewed by Jonathan Jones. Guardian, July 4, 2008, www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jul/05/art1.

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

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Topic

Artist and audience Art

Author

Rebecca West

Source

The Court and the Castle

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

West, Rebecca. The Court and the Castle. Yale University Press, 1957.

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The actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls.

Daphne du Maurier

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Topic

Artist and audience Acting

Author

Daphne du Maurier

Source

The Rebecca Notebook

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Du Maurier, Daphne. The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories. Gollancz, 1981.

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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

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Topic

Artist and audience Nature of art Art

Speaker

Marcel Duchamp

Source

Speaking of Art: Four Decades of Art in Conversation

Medium

Interview

Language

Unclear

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Duchamp, Marcel. Audio Arts. 1974. Originally a recorded interview by George Heard Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, and Charles Mitchell, London, 1959.

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

Mark Rothko

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Topic

Artist and audience Art and religion Art

Speaker

Mark Rothko

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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

James Turrell

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Topic

Artist and audience Nature of art Art

Speaker

James Turrell

Source

Harper's Bazaar

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Turrell, James. "Incredible Lightness: Pace Artist James Turrell Prepares for Superstardom." Interviewed by Julie L. Belcove. Harper's Bazaar, online slideshow, 19 Apr. 2013, http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/g2667/james-turrell-interview-0513/?slide=4.

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I let the audience follow me, if it is interested.

Richard Wright

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Artist and audience

Speaker

Richard Wright

Source

L'Express

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Wright, Richard. Interviewed by L'Express. 18 Oct. 1955.

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I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

Zhang Huan

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Topic

Purpose of art Artist and audience Art

Speaker

Zhang Huan

Medium

Interview

Language

Chinese

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huan, Zheng. "Interview with Zhang Huan." Interviewed by Roselee Goldberg. Pilgrimage to Santiago, 2000.