Top 1200 Good Taste Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Finding a voice that your readers will enjoy is largely a matter of taste. Saying that isn't much help-taste is a quality so intangible that it can't even be defined. But we know it when we meet it.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

While you can have the cult of the celebrity chef, the food still must taste good.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

My sisters are the ones who are always well dressed. Mukti, especially, has a good taste in clothes.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.

You're never going to persuade a meat-eater to become a vegetarian on taste grounds. They're completely different. One is a cleaner, fresher taste: it hasn't got that bass-note beefiness.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

As an example of wealth, good taste, and subtle intimidation, it took first prize.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

The fact that somebody that looks as unfortunate as I do sometimes would be an American taste god by the Bible of American taste, you know, I didn't see that coming!

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't like the taste either. So I stuck to bottled cider.

Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all?that is the want of taste?that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Having a diverse sense of taste - or lack of taste - I loved so many different things. I was drawn to the stupidity and excitement of glam, I had a thorough upbringing in rhythm and blues.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Rush Limbaugh is not the arbiter of what's good taste or what American opinions or morals should be.

You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Yannick, for me, is an example, an example for all the French players. We all want to taste ourselves what he was able to taste first.

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.