Genius creates, and taste preserves.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste -- that can be fixed -- but that they don't know they have it!
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.
We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
Bad taste is a species of bad morals.
We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.
It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.
Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
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