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“A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”

Art Hard Character Understanding Interest Exercise Taste Art Is Affection Gentleman Unemployed Liberal Arts

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”

May Matter Age Literature Given Religious Exercise Taste Judgment Aesthetic Sophisticated

Author:Lionel Trilling

“It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.”

Attention Known Objects Exercise Taste Judgment Steady Extending

Book:The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Source: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”

Thinking Results Exercise Taste Constant Rewards

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929

“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.”

Knows Want Giving Character Helping Jobs Actors Lines Emotional Exercise Taste Scene Directors Judgment Performances Statements Taste And Judgment

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.”

Ifs Art Individual Exercise Taste

Author:Jane Smiley

“I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.”

Reading Share Reader Exercise Healthy Taste Lists Compare Contrast Love Of Reading Provoked

Author:T. S. Eliot

“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.”

Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame