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Taste Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Taste has no system and no proofs.
- 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…
- 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…
- The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the…
- The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with…
- The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
- Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad,…
- To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.
- Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.
- Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
- Passion paralyzes good taste.
- Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
- The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2…
More Taste Quotes
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of… — Sai Baba
- Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. — Henry Adams
- I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed… — Drew Barrymore
- Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and… — Gina Barreca
- When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order.… — Mario Batali
- Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. — Charles Baudelaire
- What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats,… — Kristen Bell
- I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions… — A. C. Benson
- In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English.… — Gael Garcia Bernal