Paul Gauguin Quotes

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

I'm mainstream.

I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to publish - or read - books that have a wide potential audience. But it does generate a certain plodding sameness of tone and subject matter that plagues a lot of contemporary American fiction.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

I guess the bottom line is I don't make music that is consumed en masse.

The Situation has mass appeal.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.