Taste Quotes - page 4

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. (Cecil B. DeMille)
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things. View quote
Barbara Taylor Bradford
My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste. View quote
Zoe Kravitz
Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? View quote
Cornelia Funke
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. View quote
Francesca Annis
Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there. View quote
Kurt Masur
My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano. View quote
Marian McPartland
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. View quote
Groucho Marx
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't. View quote
Gérard Depardieu
The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful ... the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women. (Silvio Berlusconi)
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable. View quote
William Hazlitt
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Live in each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched--he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him. View quote
George Eliot
I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight. View quote
Yukio Mishima
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys. (John Donne)
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality, their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. View quote
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
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. View quote
Simone Weil