Quotes about Taste

“Taste is the feminine of genius.”

“Taste cannot be controlled by law.”

“Taste is tiring like good company.”

“Taste has no system and no proofs.”

“Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“Bad taste is a species of bad morals.”

“Taste may change, but inclination never.”

“To possess taste, one must have some soul.”

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”

“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”

“All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.”

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”

“A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”

“I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.”

“Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.”

“No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.”

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

“Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.”

“What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.”

“Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.”

“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”

“Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”

“Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.”

“A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.”

“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”

“Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.”

“It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.”

“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”