“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.” UsedArtistCultureCoursesLanguageInterestChristianityAudienceMaterialsGeniusTasteCapacityAccountsPaintIndifferenceLazinessIgnoredStrictMarbleIncompetenceTamedHaughty Author:C. S. Lewis
“I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.” ShouldThreeInterestGroupsMinesStrangeTasteLogicAccountsAncientFantasticCombinationPermanentOddAbstractStrainParallelsEccentricity Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.” PeopleCultureTasteAccountsCorporateRestaurantsFast FoodTakeoversFast Food Restaurants Author:Ani DiFranco
“We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.” FriendshipPerfectTasteAccountsPreferenceInclinationPerfect Friendship Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I am thinking of actual cases of adolescents, lets say, who think they have five hundred friends, because there are five hundred people on their Facebook account. But these are the kind of friends whose relation to you is that if you say 'I bought a sandwich'; they say 'did it taste good?' You know, that's a kind of interaction, but very different to having a real friend, somebody who you can actually talk to.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsKindDifferentRealCasesFiveTasteHundredAccountsRelationInteractionReal FriendsSandwichesKinds Of Friends Author:Noam Chomsky
“The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.” BelieveTwoFilmNightRoomsHabitTasteHundredAccountsIncludingBonesSpendingAwfulMonkeysMonumentLiving RoomLeading MeDvdsCinematicImpulsiveFixation Author:Jen Lancaster
“Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” InspireFitTasteAccountsIndividualityBeing YourselfAbout YourselfBe YouNonconformityIncumbentsJust Being YouLife PathConformity And IndividualityNot Being Yourself Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong… Don’t bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsYoungIndividualInterestPathClearNiceFailingAcceptanceFitTasteMassAdultsLet MeAccountsYoung AdultBotherBehaveBeing NiceSmoothSublimeDesirableIncumbentsArbiterSocializationLife PathBeing Popular Author:Janeane Garofalo
“In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.” ReasonScienceObjectsTasteAccountsGuidesUniformsIndivisible Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.” ShouldScienceCoursesPlanetsTheoryLessonsTasteAccountsSightAstronomyShockChemistrySparksArtificialElectricVolumeElbowsTelescopesFiringVolcanoes Book:The Annotated Emerson Source: The Annotated Emerson