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Quote by Francis Picabia

“Taste is tiring like good company.”

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French painter born on January 22, 1879, and died on November 30, 1953. Francis Picabia is renowned for his unique artistic style and contributions to modern art. more

“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 earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.”

Men Giving Looks Book Stories Eye Earth House Company Known Taste Praise Infinite Dresses Notion His Eyes Solitary Chamber Affinity Distaste Gait

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.”

Should Art School Danger Taste Absolutes Admire

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.”

Reason Law Subjects Taste Agree Seeking Good Taste

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.”

“To possess taste, one must have some soul.”

Soul Taste

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.”

Firsts Lasts Artist Creative Taste Refuge Good Taste

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”

Worst Fashion Taste Vices Good Taste

Author:Edith Sitwell

“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, and the context has changed.”

May Hard Culture Issues Changed Taste Truth Is Mass Property Innocent Minorities Ethical Elites Acceptable Hard Truths Mass Culture Ethical Issues

Author:Susan Sontag

“It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.”

Past Imagine Majority Population Enjoyed Leisure Recalls Cheerful Aristocracy Laborers Leisure Time

Author:W. H. Auden

“It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.”

Should Important Book Country Certain Opinion Class Ancient Leisure

Author:William Butler Yeats

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