“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.” NaturalAttitudeMoralDangerousDangerTasteDegreesJudgmentIntellectualConsciousIncreaseMonstersUnconsciousAestheticEntity Book:The practice of psychotherapy Source: The practice of psychotherapy
“A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.” FeelsMayArtGoes OnTasteDegreesConsciousFaultsExcellenceAbsenceMeritUnconsciousRejectsGood TasteRefiningSpoilt Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.” TasteConsciousUnconsciousGood Taste Author:Anna Brownell Jameson
“Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.” MayHas BeensSelfPleaseTasteConsciousStriveBeing TrueStrifeSelf ConsciousGrotesqueKitschBad Taste Author:Denis Dutton
“Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.” WorldWritingRealityWould BePurposeEnjoyImaginationTasteConsciousAppearanceBagsCarrieFearfulObservingSimileFree WorldDaily ExperiencePurpose Of Writing Author:William Carlos Williams