Artistic Standard Quotes

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.

I've never made a record that didn't sound better than what was in my head - that's sort of my rule.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

Lincoln has been my first love, and as always with first loves, it fixed a standard. So I scaled sunlit heights with Lincoln and produced the colossal marble head in the rotunda of the capitol of the United States.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.

The world does not want to see a Pixar film that's not great.

Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.

When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

You couldn't forget Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro either. And it had to be, you know, at least as good or better.

If there is going to be visuals for a song, I want them to be equally as good or better than the song.