Bad Work Quotes

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?

Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

I was a bad journalist.

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a good or bad.

I've had some bad gigs, don't get me wrong.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.