#pandering

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. ↗

— Brian Williams

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#get #giving #going #pandering #people

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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#expectations #honesty #integrity #on-writing #pandering