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“People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.”

People Art Literature Understanding Painting Taste Theater Ignorant

Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”

Earth Mother Born Painting Taste Painter Milk Milieu

Author:Yves Klein

“The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.”

Kind Art Painting Taste Sake Contrary Disregard

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.”

Wells Age Song Painting Taste Degrees Native Faculty Rude

Book:Miscellanies;

Source: Miscellanies;

“Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.”

Study Painting Taste Temper Improving Eloquence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.”

“During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.”

Art Term Youth Painting Masters Lovers Taste Abuse Critics Offensive Good Taste Insipid Renowned Art Lovers

Book:The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

Source: The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art

“It became a question of taste. I have a certain taste in art history. And that - I had a huge library of art history books in my studio. And I would simply have the models go through those books with me, and we began a conversation about, like, what painting means, why we do it, why people care about it why or how it can mean or make sense today.”

People Mean Art Book Care Today Certain Painting Huge Taste Conversation Models Library Studios Make Sense Art History History Books

Author:Kehinde Wiley