Quotes About Art

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

Posing for 'Playboy' for me was a classy and tasteful thing to do.

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.

My tastes are Viennese.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

I love going to the Tate Modern and I was really scared when they did the renovation and then I was so happy because they've done something really amazing there.