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.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.
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