Voltaire Quotes

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

There are no fixed notions on what I should pick up or follow, it has to first appeal to me.

Each man is led by his own liking.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

I don't usually take a picture if I don't like it. I have that choice. But some pictures I like more than others.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

It’s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.