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Taste cannot be controlled by law.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
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Jean De La Bruyere
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
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Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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Lucretius
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Marshall Mcluhan
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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Jonathan Miller
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All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Taste is tiring like good company.
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Francis Picabia
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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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Pablo Picasso
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Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
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Pablo Picasso
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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Arthur Rimbaud
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I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
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Alain-Rene Le Sage
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A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Dame Edith Sitwell
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Taste has no system and no proofs.
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Susan Sontag
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.
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Susan Sontag
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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Susan Sontag
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