Quotes About Quality

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them?

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister.

Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, She is heaven-good. They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.

If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

I was reading a transcript of a talk by Ponlop Rinpoche, and he said, "In the process of uncovering buddha nature, in the process of uncovering our open, unfixated quality of our mind, we have to be willing to get our hands dirty." In other words, he was saying that we need to be willing to work with our disturbing emotions, the ones that feel entirely dark.

Trungpa Rinpoche once said that the dharma has to be experienced because when the real quality of our lives, including the obstacles and problems and experiences that cause us to start questioning, becomes intense, any mere philosophical belief isn't going to hold a candle to the reality of what we are experiencing.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.