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Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
I really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.
Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
The blueberry-soy weight-loss smoothies my son makes for me taste terrible, but my doctor says they're good for me.
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.
Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.'
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
I think when you slow Enrique [Iglesias] down and really listen to what he's saying, it's an explosion of bad taste.
Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.
Among the classic tastes: bread sauce, Nuits St Georges Les Perdrix 1962, Worcestershire sauce, Toblerone and Bovril.
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.
The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.
I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.
I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.
Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.
I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes but I tend to watch just foreign films.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness.
Martinis are glamorous but also so simple because they only have a few ingredients, and you can really taste the vodka.
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.