Taste as an aesthetic, sociological, economic and anthropological concept refers to a cultural patterns of choice and preference. While taste is often understood as a biological concept, it can also be reasonably studied as a social or cultural phenomenon. Taste is about drawing distinctions between things such as styles, manners, consumer goods and works of art. Social inquiry of taste is about the human ability to judge what is beautiful, good ...
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- It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty. ,
- What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. ,
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. ,
- Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ,
- One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste. ,
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ,
- What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ,
- A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything. ,
- The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ,
- Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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