Fundamentals Quote by Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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 governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste…

— Susan Sontag

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

— Madeleine Vionnet

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

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 person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

— Bertolt Brecht

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

— Cyril Connolly

Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

— Joseph Chenier