Standards Quotes - Page 2

• Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Grateful, Nobody Knows

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• Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

  Frank Gehry

  May, Way, Bigs

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• Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Judging, Merit

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• There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Technique, Way, Painting

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• Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

  Harold Town

  Artist, Thinking, Quitting

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• Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Practice, Crafts

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• Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 20, 2013

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• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Loyalty, Grateful

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• You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Standards Set, Competition

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• The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

  Ken Olsen

  Leadership

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• An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

  Geoffrey Wolff

  Artist, Age

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• The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.

  Susan Rothenberg

  Air, Done, Way

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• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Learning, Ideas

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• I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Loyalty, Talking, Good Relationship

  "Are Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart On The Rocks?". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

  Shai Agassi

  People, High Standards, Dies

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• In America the biggest is the best.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Painting, Ifs

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• In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

  Michelangelo

  Relief, Opinion, Painting

  Quoted in Robert J Clements (ed) Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait (1968).

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.

  Jimmy Wales

  Past, People, Hobbies

  Comment on Wikipedia Administrator's noticeboard, November 23, 2007.

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• But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

  Damien Hirst

  Judgement, Obscene

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• I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Style, Opponents

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.270, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.

  Gail Dines

  Beauty, Business, Women

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• Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.

  Bob Lutz

  Thinking, Able, Boxes

  "GM's Bob Lutz: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2010.

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