Tali Lennox Quotes

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like it or not.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

I don't like to talk about my work. People should see my work and form their opinion based on that, not because of something I said.

I make films that are what they are. Some people like them, and some people don't.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

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 don't enjoy art.