Subjective Quality Quotes

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago… The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

Whenever I write the scenarios for my games, I don't necessarily envision them being liked or being wonderful for everyone.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

Quality is subjective. There are quality blockbusters; there are quality versions of every genre and it doesn't necessarily mean money.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is verifiable by anyone who cares to do so.

It's not something you can prove....I know you hate to hear this, but you either have it, or you don't.

You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.