Art Quote by Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

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

— Madeleine Vionnet

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to…

— Thomas Reid

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

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

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 an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything.…

— Norma Kamali

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a…

— Thomas Carlyle

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

— Mason Cooley

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general,…

— Edmund Burke