Good Taste Quotes - Page 3

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

George Bernard Shaw

Uncles, Mind, Genius

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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.

Madame de Stael

Writing, Would Be, Genius

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Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

John F. Carlson

Powerful, Mean, Blue

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Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

Sherwood Anderson

Mean, Building Up, Differences

Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

Ideas, People, Taste

Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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Learn to look not just with your eyes but with your heart. The truth is that style and taste are all relative. It is not a question whether or not someone has good taste. It is how something feels to the individual…Open your heart and mind to the world, and find the things that connect with you. How else will you know how to design your home?

Kelly Hoppen

Home, Heart, Eye

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I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure.

John Rabe

Adventure, Taste, Spirit

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Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

Giorgio Armani

Choices, Style, Culture

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Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Millicent Fenwick

Goal, Taste, Behavior

Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

Andrew Bird

Espresso, Water, Machines

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I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

John Hench

People, Details, Attention

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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

George Shearing

Exercise, Way, Taste

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Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity, Enemy, Taste

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

William Bernbach

Taste, Absence

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Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Garden, Museums, Dancing

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A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

Isaac D'Israeli

Book, Men, Fading

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Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

Steve Albini

Children, Drama, People

"Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

H. P. Lovecraft

Gentleman, Doe, Coats

H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.104, Lulu.com

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Good taste consists first upon fitness.

George William Curtis

Taste, Firsts

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If only art were as rare as good taste.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Art, Taste, Ifs

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.126, New Victoria Publishers

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On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

V. S. Pritchett

Order, Giving, Use

"The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 29), 1980.

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[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Effort, Taste, Century

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Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

Ira Glass

People, Creative, Wish

"Radio Host Ira Glass: Even The Most Successful People Once Doubted Themselves" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2014.

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Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

Georgia Harkness

Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Mary Jo Putney

Vegas, Cities, Taste

Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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