“One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.” WayLongArtNovelTasteStandardsArt IsInnovationCriticsConvictionSignificantOne WayFirmProvocationStandards Set Author:Leo Steinberg
“The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today.” DoeArtMadeTodayNovelReadyTasteAssumingCriticsYesterdayManifestationReservesCriteria Book:Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art Source: Other criteria: confrontations with twentieth-century art
“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!” HumansRomanceNovelColorTastePaintBlissDestructiveCharmingRomanticismDeceptive Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.” TwoBookFictionNovelTasteIllNon Fiction Author:O.R. Melling
“... into the novel goes such taste as I have for rational behaviour and social portraiture. The short story, as I see it to be, allows for what is crazy about humanity: obstinacies, inordinate heroisms, "immortal longings.” StoriesHumanitySocialFictionNovelCrazyTasteLongingRationalImmortalShort StoryHeroismBehaviourObstinacyPortraiture Book:Stories Source: Stories
“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.” FirstsMayBookLiteratureFictionNovelTasteMassScience FictionRateCreditGenuineInstanceGenreVolumePornographyTrashRatiosShady Author:Susan Sontag
“I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.” IfsWritingNovelToo MuchTasteHorrorElementsBoredSeasoning Author:Neil Gaiman
“I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.” WritingFirstsKidsFilmGirlNovelSawsCrazyFansTasteHorrorSquaresSuburbsHorror FilmHitchcock Author:Karen Walton
“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.” FirstsKindMatterFilmArtistNovelCrimeTasteElementsCriminalsBagsSimilarityThrillers Author:William Monahan
“A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.” IfsPersonsDoeClassNovelTastePretty Woman Book:Autobiography and Selected Letters Source: Autobiography and Selected Letters