Good Taste Quotes - Page 4

• True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Order, True Power

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• There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Dirty

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• I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Vegas, Cities, Taste

  Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”

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• It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Creativity, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• In a new issue of Esquire magazine, they revealed that before he was married to Teresa Heinz, Senator John Kerry dated Morgan Fairchild, Michelle Phillips, Catherine Oxenberg and Dana Delany. Finally a Democratic presidential candidate with good taste in women.

  Jay Leno

  Issues, Presidential, Magazines

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• People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

  Michael Patrick King

  People, Taste, Okay

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• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• I would just like say to you with all my heart is that most everybody I know who does interesting creative work, they went through a phase of years where they had really good taste and they could tell what they were making wasn’t as good as they wanted it to be.

  Ira Glass

  Heart, Years, Interesting

  "Your product sucks" by Tristan Louis, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

  Cary Grant

  Wise, Taste, Enough

  Nancy Lynn Nelson, Cary Grant (1991). “Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best”, William Morrow & Company

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• I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.

  Nick Hornby

  Reflection, Bullshit, Personality

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.22, Penguin

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• When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.

  Jesse Shera

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  Georgia Harkness

  Beautiful, Christian, Artist

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• In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

  Kylie Tennant

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

  Letitia Baldrige

  Eye, Taste, Fields

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Good taste is always bad.

  Poul Henningsen

  Taste

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• Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Long, Done, Taste

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• I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

  Cy Twombly

  Tchaikovsky, Profound, Kitsch

  "Kitsch art: love it or loathe it?" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2013.

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• H. L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. That is not true. I have come to believe that it pays to make all your layouts project a feeling of good taste, provided that you do it unobtrusively. An ugly layout suggests an ugly product. There are very few products which do not benefit from being given a first class ticket through life.

  David Ogilvy

  Believe, Class, Feelings

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

  John Waters

  Political, Taste, Action

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• I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

  Luke Ford

  Jumping, Actors, Elements

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• To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Beautiful, Sunset, Secret

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic, www.poemhunter.com.

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• It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Taste, Easy

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• Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Enemy, Taste

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• I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.

  Helmut Newton

  Hate, Dirty, Years

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