Leo Burnett Quotes

I can generate attention quickly.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity.

I have this whole new audience now.

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.

Publicity is very important for any actor, especially when you are new, and people need to know you.

I do promotion because I want to do art. I don't do the art because I want to be famous.

It was hard to get my name out there, but luckily, I have an awesome following who would not stay silent and helped me get to where I wanted to be.

Name recognition takes time.

The more publicity the better.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

Marketing is what gets you noticed.

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

If you can't find what's unique, people aren't going to listen.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.