Jane Alexander Quotes

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts…. its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.

The best of pop in our country is among the best of the arts that we do. And Britain does the arts as well as, and sometimes better than, anybody else on the planet.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.

Bring the arts back, and treat it with respect.

I know perfection in this game is very hard to do and pretty much impossible, but it's what I strive for because I think it's what you should do as a quarterback and as a leader.

We expect nothing but greatness from ourselves.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

You always want to play at a high level.

Non-profits should be looking to enlist and retain the best people to aggressively solve problems, not to perform adequately and persist. We should expect people to innovate and do the highest-quality work and then reward them accordingly.

Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.

Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.

If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop.