Quotes About Judgment

Sometimes buying the ugly work is the thing that you know you should do.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

No work deserves to be criticized that has not much in it that deserves to be applauded.

A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.

Few great men could pass personnel.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.