Quotes About Quality

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing.

New houses, which are crap, because they don't build them the way they used to anymore. Old houses, which used to be good, because they were built back when they built them the way they used to, but which today, as a result of being old, are crap. So whichever kind of house you own, it's going to be some variety of crap, which means sooner or later everything in it will break. Dealing with broken things is the essence of home ownership, and it's exhausting.

It was a sad place, especially after a day at the Circle, where all was made with care and love and the gift of a good eye.

A good coffee should be roasted gently, in small batches, and lightly.

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

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