Best taste & interest 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

“Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste.”

Interest Imagination Taste Advertising Quickening

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

Interest Secret Generations Mystery Youth Taste Enthusiasm Posterity Predecessors Secret Society

Book:The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

Source: The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs

“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)

“Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.”

People May Two Interest Class Birth Habit Taste Lawyer Links Connecting Aristocracy Classes Of Society

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?”

Ifs Looks Different Hands Stars Interest Rocks Particular Taste Affair Instance Temples Suggestions Hints Reins Hurrying Personal Interest Foibles Guiding Stars

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”

Facts Interest Taste Mass Rationality

Book:Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited

“A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the strange and fantastic. (b) Love of the abstract truth and of scientific logick. (c) Love of the ancient and the permanent. Sundry combinations of these three strains will probably account for all my odd tastes and eccentricities.”

Should Three Interest Groups Mines Strange Taste Logic Accounts Ancient Fantastic Combination Permanent Odd Abstract Strain Parallels Eccentricity

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.”

“If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.”

People Ifs Want Should Trying Mean Language Interest Common Accepting Audience Groups Please Taste Sake Aliens Neglect Idols Should I No Respect

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.”

World Feels Mind Heart Passion Lost Interest Taste Scene Dignity And Love Innocence Ridicule Meek Hearts And Love

Book:The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Source: The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

“What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all kinds of educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are predicated on corporate practices and goals. Everything we do to, with, and for our children is influenced by capitalist market conditions and the hegemonic interests of ruling corporate elites. In simple terms, we calculate what is best for our children by regarding them as investments and turning them into commodities.”

“Farmers since the beginning of time have been feeding the world very successfully without systematically abusing animals or destroying the environment. But we're breeding food that is less safe for us, it tastes much worse than it ever has in history, and it's wreaking havoc on the environment in a way that it never did in history before. All in the interest of it being cheap.”

World Way Has Beens Interest Animal Environment Taste Safe Farmers Destroying Feeding Breeding Havoc Destroying The Environment Feeding The World

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.”

Should Culture Interest My Own Personality Circumstances Taste Reflection Tolerance Judgement Surround Bullshit Good Taste

Book:Songbook

Source: Songbook

“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”

Ifs Ends Artist Interest Saws Influence Childhood Taste Approach Your Children

Author:Brett Ratner

“When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.”

Way Looks Bigs Enjoy Interest Simple Food Taste Eating Cooks Dishes Recipes Cookery

Author:Paula Wolfert

“Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.”

Men Interest Taste Renounce

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.”

Source: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences

“Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.”

Ideas Shows Film Interest My Own Pay Taste Short Films

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity with common sense, is pitifully limited: our capacity even to see, hear, touch, taste and smell is so shrouded in veils of mystification that an intensive discipline of unlearning is necessary for anyone before one can begin to experience the world afresh, with innocence, truth and love.”

Source: The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise

“No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.”

Men May Different Sometimes States Law Purpose Interest Differences Pleasure Taste Fortune

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”

Men Book Interest Habit Taste

Author:Walter Benjamin

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