“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.” ArtistImaginationFantasyTasteEnormousCompositionGood TasteScientific Knowledge Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.” MadeSelfSometimesLastsAmericaChoicesCultureSinCitiesFantasyGrewComfortTasteApproachPicksHollywoodMade ItDeceptionFrontiersAmerican CultureVegasLas VegasVisionariesSelf DeceptionAmbiguousReinventionQuintessentialProminencePraguePeoria Author:Hal Rothman
“If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.” IfsValuesFantasyTasteDegreesEverydayPreservesStabilityEveryday LifeContinuityImposing Author:Eric Hoffer
“The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit.” HumansHas BeensDesireHumanityIndividualProcessFantasyTasteCommitmentObligationGoodsAppetiteConsumerismConsolationOverconsumptionVaporMutilation Author:Jeremy Seabrook
“My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.” EndsRunningFilmFictionFantasyDramaTasteLowsScience FictionBudgets Author:Michael Sheen
“It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns” MenWorldIndividualPleasureFantasySacrificeTasteSucceedRoseDespiteThrownUnfortunateGatheringScopeThornsSad WorldSacrificing Everything Author:Marquis de Sade