Appetite Quote by Baltasar Gracian

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

— Oliver Goldsmith

It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even…

— Hermann Hesse

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest…

— Eleanor Brown

Taste is improved by cultivation.

— Robert Aris Willmott

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

— Luc de Clapiers

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone…

— Anonymous

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in…

— Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather…

— R. Murray Schafer

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

— John Dewey

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of…

— Edith Wharton