Taste Quotes

Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.

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

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and taste for emotions of recognition.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.

Mistaking taste for genius is the rock on which thousands have split.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

May not taste be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it?

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

Exuberance is better than taste.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with an excellency of heart.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.