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Quotes about taste

  • Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (Watts Naomi)
  • Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. (Watts Naomi)
  • What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. (Watts Naomi)
  • Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. (Watts Naomi)
  • Bad taste is a species of bad morals. (Watts Naomi)
  • People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. (Watts Naomi)
  • Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. (Watts Naomi)
  • The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. (Watts Naomi)
  • It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. (Watts Naomi)
  • 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. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste is the feminine of genius. (Watts Naomi)
  • One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. (Watts Naomi)
  • My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. (Watts Naomi)
  • It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste cannot be controlled by law. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste may change, but inclination never. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. (Watts Naomi)
  • 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. (Watts Naomi)
  • What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. (Watts Naomi)
  • Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. (Watts Naomi)
  • Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. (Watts Naomi)
  • All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. (Watts Naomi)
  • Taste is tiring like good company. (Watts Naomi)
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