“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.” WritingSaidTwoEndsCreativeFlowerDrinkTasteAdvertisingBrownBottlesAdsCreative WritingSlogansSpitCigarBillboards Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.” FeelsCreativeGeniusTasteTemperamentCreative Power Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.” PeopleWishCreativeTasteGood TasteBeginnersCreative Work Author:Ira Glass
“Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.” GivingKindCreativeStyleGeniusTasteNotesFollyFacultySublimeGiving Back Author:Bill Vaughan
“Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.” IndividualEnergyCreativityCreativeTasteSucceedNegativeExclusiveDeprivingEnergy And Life Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.” PeopleKindTwoGuyCreativeMiddleTypeTasteBandProjectsDrivingShipsSoloCreative PeopleAlong For The Ride Author:Patrick Stump
“Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.” GivingShouldArtCreativeStyleStrengthTasteBlindErrorsCrueltyAwfulImpulseWorks Of ArtUtterance Book:A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973 Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973
“I've heard of people stopping their cars, having car wrecks, all kinds of things. But most of the banjo players I know had that moment when they heard Earl Scruggs. So, for me, it transcends the technique. It's the musician in him and his personality, his musical personality, such great taste, such great technique, very, very creative.” PeopleKnowsKindMomentsCreativePlayerHeardCarPersonalityTasteMusicianMusicalTechniqueAll KindsThat MomentStoppingWrecksBanjosCar WreckBanjo Players Author:Earl Scruggs
“When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.” TermCareersCreativeInfluenceEconomicTasteDevilTasksIndependenceWarmBreadOur FamilyRisingDaily LifePaceWorldlyGave UpBargainsNurturingZestAromaMoldingHomemakingZest For LifeEconomic IndependenceMinivans Author:Barbara Kingsolver