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Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

» Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Chilean poet

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventua

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

Taste has no system and no proofs.

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

» Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) British philosopher

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

» William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist and short-story Writer['As I Lay Dying', 'Absalom, Absalom!' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949]

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

» Salman Rushdie (1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist

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,

» Stendhal (1783-1842) French novelist

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

» Umberto Eco (1932-?) Italian novelist, semiotician, essayist, philosopher and critic

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