Artistic Acceptance Quotes

The industry doesn't usually say nice things about my work. My films take a while till they are accepted as good and I think 'Yennai Arindhaal' too will go through that phase.

Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.

When I'm gigging, there's an uneasy shift when I pull a puppet out. People look at me aghast and I feel I have about 20 seconds to win them over. You even get the prejudice among other people in your own profession.

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.

If I was concerned about being accepted, I would have been doing Ansel Adams lookalikes, because that was easily accepted. Everything I did was never accepted...but luckily for me, my interest in the subject and my passion for the subject took me to the point that I wasn't wounded by that, and eventually, people came around to me.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.

I think people are intolerant of artists.

There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the paintings and they don't - they may go, "okay," and then look at it in a different sort of way. Instead of just looking at it as some type of wild art, they look at it in a historical perspective or context.

I felt like people weren't going to accept me as a pop artist.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

Before you have a hit song, all you're doing is banging on the door and screaming, 'I've got something I want to play...' Now with the hit songs, they're like, 'Okay man, we're listening. Whaddya got for us?'

Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as an artist. You wanna be appreciated, you wanna be liked, but you know, it's just not realistic for everyone.

The great thing about 'Hamilton,' for me, is so many people have been exposed to and are more open to hip-hop and certain artists, despite the stigma that had before been attached to it.

The good thing about 'Nuyorican Soul' is we get a little bit of everybody liking it.

Most people say, "Hell, no. I don't know who you are. This scares me. Like, I'm not interested in this."Another way of looking at these paintings is, these are the guys who said yes.

You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.

It's a bonus if your girlfriend likes your music - definitely not a downfall.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.