The drama's laws the drama's patrons give._x000D_ _x000D_ For we that live to please must please to live.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that artists must cater to the tastes of their audience in order to succeed.
Samuel Johnson's quote reflects the relationship between creators and their audience, suggesting that the rules and expectations set by patrons dictate the form and content of artistic work. Furthermore, it highlights the necessity for artists to meet these expectations in order to sustain their livelihood, thus illustrating the tension between artistic integrity and commercial viability.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of audience feedback in artistic creation.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.
Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
Music is always a commentary on society.
I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.
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