Taste Quotes - Page 5

• Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Simplicity

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Taste has no system and no proofs.

  Susan Sontag

  Proof

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, Men

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• 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.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Law, Reason, Agree

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 69, 1799.

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• 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.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Children, Latin

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• If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

  Simone Signoret

  Husband, Funny Marriage, Prove

  The New York Journal-American, November 14, 1960.

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• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fashion, Confused, Mistake

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• Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Small Numbers, Judging

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• Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Would Be, Genius, Teach

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

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• There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Human Nature, Being Human, Humans

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• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  Francis Picabia

  Tire, Good Company, Company

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• 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.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

  Paul Gauguin

  Luxury, Needs, Morrow

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

  Susan Sontag

  Faculty, Response, Humans

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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• You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.

  Ramakrishna

  Differences, Different, Digestion

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• In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  Roger Scruton

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Truth, Passion

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• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Creativity

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• Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Intelligent, Ideas, Intelligence

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• Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, July

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

  Michael Scott

  Gay, People, Acting

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• Taste may change, but inclination never.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Inclination

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• The only enemy of art is taste.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Enemy, Art Is

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• I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Life, Sex

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