Guillermo del Toro Quotes

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

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.

I'm a big fan of horror, personally.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

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."

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

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

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

I'm not really into horror movies.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

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.

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.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy 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.

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

Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.

I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

Each man is led by his own liking.

Purple's my favorite color.