Attractive Quote by John Ruskin

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, 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

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the…

— Joseph Addison

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say,…

— Francois Fenelon

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

— Madeleine Vionnet

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

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that…

— John Ruskin

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ...…

— Jeremy Bentham

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

We have to get out there and explain that imperfect tastes just as good.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert