Subjective Preference Quotes

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

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

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

Every one loves his country, his manners, his language, his wife, his children; not because they are the best in the World, but because they are absolutely his own, and he loves himself and his own labors in them.

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

Woody Allen movies are like Beatles songs. I can't name my favorite without you immediately naming a better one.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

Even I have certain depictions that I personally don't like, but I don't believe artists should necessarily follow a particular person's preference. They should focus on the things they like and follow their own desires.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

I can't choose a favorite musician, because I love music so much that whatever/whomever I'm listening to at that moment is my favorite.

I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.