Taste Quotes
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.Taste
Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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Baudelaire, Charles
1821-1867 French Poet
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people s nerves tingling.
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Bayley, Stephen
1951 British Design Critic
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
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Bayley, Stephen
1951 British Design Critic
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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Blanchot, Maurice
1907 French Literary Theorist Author
A man s palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
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Bovee, Christian Nevell
1820-1904 American Author Lawyer
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Butler, Samuel
1612-1680 British Poet Satirist
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Chateaubriand, Vicomte De
1768-1848 French Politician Writer
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
No taste is so acquired as that for someone else s quality of mind.
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Connolly, Cyril
1903-1974 British Critic
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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Dali, Salvador
1904-1989 Spanish Painter
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
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Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Taste is the feminine of genius.
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Fitzgerald, Lord Edward
1809-1883 British Scholar Poet
I love everything that s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you ll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Haydon, Benjamin
1786-1846 British Artist
Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty.
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Jarry, Alfred
1873-1907 French Playwright Author
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De
1846-1870 French Author Poet
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth s follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930 British Author
Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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Lucretius
c95-55 BC Roman poet and philosopher
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Mcluhan, Marshall
1911-1980 Canadian Communications Theorist
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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Miller, Jonathan
1934 British Actor Director
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Taste is tiring like good company.
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Picabia, Francis
1878-1953 French Painter Poet
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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Picasso, Pablo
1881-1973 Spanish Artist
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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Picasso, Pablo
1881-1973 Spanish Artist
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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Rimbaud, Arthur
1854-1891 French Poet
I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
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Sage, Alain-Rene Le
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Sitwell, Dame Edith
1887-1964 British Poet
The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
Taste has no system and no proofs.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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Sontag, Susan
1933 American Essayist
I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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Updike, John
1932 American Novelist Critic
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
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Vauvenargues, Marquis De
1715-1747 French Moralist
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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Wilde, Oscar
1856-1900 British Author Wit