Taste Quotes - Page 9

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

Tact is good taste in action.

I have very eclectic tastes.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

You're a woman, at least you taste like you are.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.