Quotes About Taste

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.

It will be in the key of delicious. - Bucky

The brains of the undead do nothing for me. The taste is vile, nothing like the juicy, enticing brains of the living.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in calories, which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas celery, which is not really a food at all but a member of the plywood family, provided by Mother Nature so that mankind would have a way to get onion dip into his mouth at parties, has none.

They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978.