Quotes About Evaluation

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.