Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is…

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

— H. W. Janson

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes…

— Howard Nemerov

“What distinguishes art from such undertaker's business is that life's closeness to death is its theme, not its addiction.”

— W.G. Sebald

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

— Jennifer Young

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what…

— Jerome Frank

I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in…

— Malcolm X

Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of…

— Louis O. Kelso

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

— John Madden

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And…

— Michael Azerrad

I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based…

— Ron Suskind

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

— Ai Weiwei

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

— Therese of Lisieux

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural…

— Karl Lehmann

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

— Khalil Gibran