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The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.
They never taste who always drink; they always talk, who never think.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.