Quotes About Evaluation

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for the reader, and I want to tell the reader what I think.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

It's clever but is it art?

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

When I'm passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

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.'

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes.

Presently she said: "It's none of my business, Nick, but what do people think of me?" "You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar: ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more...

I don't," he said, "and that's a fact. I just can't size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?" "A blonde.

but look at it this way: If you've got the ugliest house on the street, you never have to look at it.

For something so important in our lives, friendship is woefully unexamined and under-studied. I think we deserve better. If we value friendship as much as we say we do, then let's get serious. Think of how much more genuine and authentic our friendships could be," she said, "if we just apply the right metrics to them.