Loss of Quality Quotes

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

Our national life is on every side distinctly poorer, uglier, meaner, for the kind of influence he exercises.

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Writing by committee becomes much less about a vision. It is really about a piece of merchandise.