Creativity Quote by Max Cannon

A one-line dare like this works because it smuggles an accusation inside a casual question. "You ever try" sounds friendly, almost throwaway, but it’s really a spotlight: if the answer is no, that’s the point. Cannon frames judgment not as a moral failure you occasionally commit, but as a default operating system you probably haven’t even attempted to switch off. The genius is the verb "try" - it implies difficulty, habit, relapse. Judgment isn’t presented as an opinion; it’s an addiction.

As an artist, Cannon is also poking at the audience’s relationship to art itself. Viewers enter galleries, feeds, and comment sections with a reflexive thumbs-up/thumbs-down posture, treating taste like a courtroom verdict. This question interrupts that machinery. It asks you to imagine looking without immediately ranking: not just people, but bodies, politics, aesthetics, even your own impulses. The subtext is that judgment is often disguised as discernment, and we use it to feel in control - to reduce the mess of other humans into a clean label.

The most cutting part is the time limit: "a day". Not a spiritual retreat, not a lifetime vow. Just 24 hours. If that sounds impossible, Cannon’s critique lands: our culture runs on rapid appraisal, algorithmic sorting, and moral triage. The line doubles as performance art, because the moment you hear it, you start judging yourself for judging.