Good Taste Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Order, True Power

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• In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

  Kylie Tennant

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

  Helmut Newton

  Art, Vocabulary, Two

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• It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Creativity, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

  Stendhal

  Bored, Taste, Sorrowful

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• Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Taste, Truth Is, Danger

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Taste, Easy

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• To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Beautiful, Sunset, Secret

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

  Luke Ford

  Jumping, Actors, Elements

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• My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

  John Waters

  Political, Taste, Action

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Abuse, Taste

  Ernst Hans Gombrich (2002). “The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art”, Phaidon Press

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• I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

  Cy Twombly

  Tchaikovsky, Profound, Kitsch

  "Kitsch art: love it or loathe it?" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Long, Done, Taste

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• In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg and Dana Delany. Finally a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Presidential, Magazines

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• 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.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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• In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

  Russell Lynes

  Taste, Guarded, Estimation

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Eye, Taste, Fields

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• There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

  Cary Grant

  Wise, Taste, Enough

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

  Ira Glass

  Heart, Years, Interesting

  "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.

  Jesse Shera

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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