“By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.” ArtShowsBigsNationsClassDesignTasteLateStandardsHotMovedArchitectureContemporaryVisualsBrownAestheticFurnitureEightySymbolismShowing OffSymmetryContemporary ArtArchitecture Design Author:Peter York
“The highest degree of meekness consists in seeing, serving, honoring, and treating amiably, on occasion, those who are not to our taste, and who show themselves unfriendly, ungrateful, and troublesome to us.” ShowsSeeingTasteDegreesHighestSaintOccasionsServingUngratefulTroublesomeMeeknessUnfriendly Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“The success factor is a combination of intuition and honestly, it's mostly only intuition. A design business is inherently dependent upon the intuition of its chief designer. Luckily I have a track record that if you show me five pairs of shoes I will almost always pick the one pair that will sell the best. It's just a gift I have for mass taste - a link with what people want in a certain moment in time.” PeopleIfsWantMomentsShowsCertainRecordsFiveDesignTasteMassPicksSellsShoesTrackIntuitionHonestlyFactorsChiefsCombinationDesignerDependentPairsLinksShow MeMoments In TimePair Of ShoesTrack Record Author:Monita Rajpal
“My first job with a network was General Hospital, and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well and they have good, discerning taste.” FeelsFirstsWellsShowsJobsTasteTreatsHospitalsDiscerningGeneral Hospital Author:Jaime Ray Newman
“It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.” MenWayHeartMadeShowsActionHeavenSonSweetHeroTasteDifficultyNobleEaseFlamesAspirationConsiderationAdamPoorestMartyrdomKindlesAbnegationTrue ThingsSweet ThingsWrong Man Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.” ChildrenShowsFatherBeliefParentPleasureGenerationsSonTasteTendenciesDenialDeniedAbnormalClergymen Book:The Story of a Literary Career Source: The Story of a Literary Career