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“I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.”

Feels Book Ideas Lost Half Century Taste Pages Good Things Prepared Dishes 20th Century Lost You Pages Turning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.”

Long Art Used Technology Century Fashion Design Taste Importance Stores Fascinating Bottles Perfume Design And Art

Author:Judith Miller

“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.”

Men Wells Mean Nations Century Serious Taste Capacity Concern Property Western Notion Favors Pursuit Primaries Leisure Prosperous Serious Life

Author:Allan Bloom

“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”

Effort Century Periods Taste Concepts Defined Nineteenth Century Good Taste

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.”

Has Beens Culture Three Streets Century Style Taste Understood Structure Architecture Defined Paris Academic Sophisticated Urban Consistency Aesthetics Violation Refined Exemplary

Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?

“Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.”

Should Firsts Science Fun Force Century Duty Taste Twenties Throat Drag Kicking

Author:George Porter

“Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Art Moments Might Groups Conditions Century Figures Taste Greek Composition Sculpture Fragments Vivid Adapted Antiques Revulsion Delphi

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.”

Lasts Century Taste Chords

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway. Humor is just an ingredient. It's always been in poetry. It kind of dropped out of poetry I think during the 19th and up to the mid-twentieth century. But it's found its way back. And it's simply an ingredient.”

People Thinking Way Kind Seems Found Century Strange Taste Ingredients Twentieth Century

Author:Billy Collins