"If the audience knew what they wanted then……" — Alan Moore

"If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist."

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253 Quotes by Alan Moore

Alan Moore has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a…
If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see…
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly…
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that,…
The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I…
It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a…
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what…
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's…
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is…
The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it.…

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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