Perception of Quality Quotes

There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

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.

One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.

It's important to me what the viewers think.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

There is neither a proportional relationship, nor an inverse one, between a writer’s estimation of a work in progress & its actual quality. The feeling that the work is magnificent, & the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.

I know when things are good or bad.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

Quality is better seen up at the timberline than here obscured by smoky windows and oceans of words, and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free of social authority and this is an institution of social authority. Quality for sheep is what the shepherd says. And if you take a sheep and put it up at the timberline at night when the wind is roaring, that sheep will be panicked half to death and will call and call until the shepherd comes, or comes the wolf.