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Taste Quotes - Page 27

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

"For Dev Hynes, Every Sound Is A Color". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

For me, gradually over the years, you refined your tastes in the way you do things and it becomes maybe less experimental.

"David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It's a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.117, Faber & Faber

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2005). “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan