Discerning Taste Quotes

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations - and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

Charles preferred his deer to taste like meat and his pancakes to look like pancakes. Brother Wolf thought he was too picky. Brother Wolf was probably right.

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.