Good Taste Quotes - Page 2

• Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Sexy, Fashion, People

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• Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

  Kristin Hersh

  Needs, Taste, Instruments

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• What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do
  creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
  For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s
  trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work
  disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want
  it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work
  that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your
  ambitions.

  Ira Glass

  Couple, Ambition, Years

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• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  Francis Picabia

  Taste, Tire, Good Company

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• As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Unique, Land, Style

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• Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Taste, Judgment

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• You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play the role of good-taste police. We - Americans - permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it.

  John Irving

  Country, Play, Names

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Law, Taste, Reason

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 69, 1799.

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• If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Taste, Novel, Ifs

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Smart, Keys, Definitions

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Tests, Taste, Morality

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.123

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• Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fashion, Confused, Mistake

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• Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Balance, Taste

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Taste, Human Nature, Being Human

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• A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Taste, Conscious, Unconscious

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• Too much good taste can be boring

  Diana Vreeland

  Too Much, Taste, Boring

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• Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

  Rich Mullins

  Art, Taste, Being Human

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• Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?

  Isabelle Holland

  Way, Taste, Publicity

  Isabelle Holland (1982). “Moncrieff: a novel”

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• Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Choices, Needs, Taste

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• Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

  T. E. Brown

  Art, Men, Doe

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• Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

  Francois Fenelon

  Taste, Niceties, Rejects

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• My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Giving, Taste In Music, My Sister

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  Vera Wang

  Wedding, Fashion, Dresses

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• Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

  William Bernbach

  Taste, Absence

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• Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Garden, Museums, Dancing

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