To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.