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Quotes About Taste

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
~ Helmut Newton
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
~ Ferran Adria
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
~ Charles Bukowski
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.
~ Jean Patou
Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
~ Carmel Snow
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
~ Maurice de Vlaminck
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
~ Joe Orton
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
~ Pablo Picasso
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
~ Paul Prudhomme
It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
~ Alexis Soyer
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
~ Dave Hickey
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
~ Paula Deen
Patience is the secret to good food.
~ Gail Simmons
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
~ Vitruvius
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
~ Julia Child
Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.
~ Giorgio Armani
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
~ Diana Vreeland
I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it and don't let anyone tell you not to.
~ Connor Franta