Quote by Kane X. Faucher

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

— Edmund Burke

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

— Cat Stevens

As a performer, we look for applause.

— Sushmita Sen

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

— Horace

I need the applause.

— Jerry Lewis

Applause is the beginning of abuse

— Ted Hughes

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson