Aesthetic Taste Quotes

It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.

I believe in style, not fashion.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

I don't know if I have good style; I just know what I like.

It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

I definitely have an appreciation for fashion.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

The middlebrow, I hate.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.

Art is all a matter of personality.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.