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“High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.”

Firsts Lines Genius Taste Highest Appreciate Originals Appearance Command Reputation Recognition

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.”

Ifs Humans Reason Use Action Human Beings Beauty Teach Produce Taste Appreciate Mathematics Proof Rational Aesthetics Calculations Assessment Good Taste

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.”

Mind Doe Art Enjoy Understanding Taste Concerned Appreciate Former Latter

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.”

Thinking Should Trying Term Failing Poet Taste Diversity Projects Appreciate Cooking Wide Mediums Allowance

Author:James Arthur

“I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.”

Want Wells Kind Modern Rocks Taste Band Music Is Appreciate Guitar Pops Alternatives Garage Grunge Personal Taste Alternative Music

Author:Al Yankovic

“I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.”

Happens Enjoy Taste Eating Appreciate Humble Pie Humble Pie Eating Humble Pie

Author:Simon Sinek

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”

Heart Humor Taste Jokes Appreciate Oneself Irony Sense Of Humor Lost Love Preconceptions

Book:To see the dream

Source: To see the dream

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

Eye Used Reading Half Taste Ten Pages Appreciate Titles Jane Describing Austen Summarizing

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)”

Fire Taste Appreciate Smoke Randy Acquired Taste

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.”

Thinking Wells Past Beautiful White Tree Baby Grew Taste Rain Appreciate Rivers Jazz Definitions Warm Smell Brown Infinity Beautiful Things Rushing Squirrels Swollen Muzzle Chipmunks

Author:David Sedaris