Standards Quotes

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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account… — Ernest Hemingway
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of… — Odell Shepard
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura… — Thomas Sowell
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work. — Shelley Winters
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,… — Susan Sontag
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the… — Sam Keen
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… — Jimmy Wales
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. — Pema Chodron
But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene. — Damien Hirst
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be… — Paul Cezanne
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from… — Ned Rorem
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. — Studs Terkel
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. — Alain de Botton
I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards,… — Philip Johnson
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and… — Leo Steinberg

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