Creative Assessment Quotes

It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

How can you measure acting in inches?

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and what they bring to the material, regardless of their gender.

When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.