Best taste & errors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Nudity is undignified and an error of taste”

“He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.”

Ifs Long Crazy Taste Errors Delight Drains Felicity Dregs

Book:Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

Source: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

“All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.”

May Taste Truth Is Judgment Criticism Errors Valuable Satirical Benefactors Rectify

Book:The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

“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.”

Giving Should Art Creative Style Strength Taste Blind Errors Cruelty Awful Impulse Works Of Art Utterance

Book:A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973

Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973

“It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.”

Should Believe Taste Errors Pleasant

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.”

Play Difficult Pieces Students Serious Taste Judgment Regard Fundamentals Errors Musical Consideration Musical Taste Taste And Judgment

Book:Violin Playing as I Teach it

Source: Violin Playing as I Teach it

“Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a good cake is like a good marriage: from the outside, it looks ordinary, sometimes unremarkable, yet cut into it, taste it, and you know that it is nothing of the sort. It is the sublime result oflong and patient experience, a confection whose success relies on a profound understanding of compatibilities and tastes; on a respect for measurement, balance, chemistry and heat; on a history of countless errors overcome.”