Quotes About Taste

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

The most important thing in art is taste.

If it sells, it's art.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

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

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.