The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

—David Cronenberg

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David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Dubbed "Canada's King of Horror", he is a principal originator of the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation, infectious diseases, and the intertwining of the psychological, physical, and technological. Cronenberg...

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

—David Cronenberg

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

—David Cronenberg

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

—Charles Rosin

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

—Brooke McEldowney

So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

—Brenda Ueland

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