Best taste & genius Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

Used Artist Culture Courses Language Interest Christianity Audience Materials Genius Taste Capacity Accounts Paint Indifference Laziness Ignored Strict Marble Incompetence Tamed Haughty

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”

Should Mind Genius Taste Welfare Privileged Uncles Outrage Good Taste

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.”

Feels Creative Genius Taste Temperament Creative Power

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Genius has no taste for weaving sand.”

Genius Taste Sand Weaving

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.”

Writing Would Be Literature Genius Taste Proof Good Taste

Author:Madame de Stael

“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.”

Giving Kind Creative Style Genius Taste Notes Folly Faculty Sublime Giving Back

Author:Bill Vaughan

“To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.”

Ifs Men Feelings Would Be Genius Taste Mere Critics

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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

“Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.”

Art Effects Fine Genius Taste Aspect Appreciation Faculty Delicate

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Taste is the next gift to genius.”

Next Genius Taste

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.”

Men Mean Two Particular He Man Genius Taste Display Diamond Odds Disputes Quickness Luster

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.”

Men Whole Character Action Genius Taste Praise Productions Isolated

Author:Elizabeth Wordsworth

“Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.”

Ends Joy Forget Love Is Genius Taste And Love Hearing Holiness Never Forget Preaching Sermons Eloquence Oratory

Author:John Angell James

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”

Seems Wish Genius Taste Capacity Performances Wit Novelists Labour Reviews

Author:Jane Austen

“Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.”

Has Beens Stills Might Age Genius Taste Faults Caught Civilized Vulgar Might Have Been Bad Taste Wilder Tutor

Author:Horace Walpole

“Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.”

Judging Genius Taste Executing

Book:The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.”

Wanted Genius Taste

Author:Horace Walpole

“Taste is the common sense of genius.”

Wisdom Common Genius Taste Common Sense

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.”

Mean Soul Facts Use Action Enjoy Class Records Style Genius Circumstances Taste Achievement Clothes Claims Individuality Gossip Mediocre Hallmark Snob Conventionality Personal Taste

Author:James Hillman

“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.”

Literature Design Genius Taste Preserves Folly Sublime Good Sense Bad Taste

Author:Alexander Pope

“Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.”

People World Trying Firsts Helping Vision Baby Genius Taste Majors Sells Perseverance Obvious Changing The World Founders Multiple Helping People Ebay Paypal

Author:Eric Ries

“The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.”

Greater Genius Taste Proof Obscure

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”

Genius Taste Theme Treatment Tyrants

Book:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel

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