Best taste & materials Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

Moments Materials Taste Letting Go Soil Raw Materials

Author:Rene Redzepi

“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

“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”

Source: Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”

Perfect Pleasure Moral Materials Source Taste Perfection Attractive Purity Faculty Receiving Oar

Author:John Ruskin

“Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.”

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.”

Real Literature Materials Taste Husband Gun Angry Drunk

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.”

Book Real Sometimes Form Differences Materials Taste Intellectual Newspapers Attractive Poison Disgusting

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.”

World Feels Doe Soul States Order Differences Perfect Materials Taste Connections Smell Organs Material World

Author:Carl Jung

“The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.”

World Want Feels Spiritual Form Found Nice Materials Higher Taste Response Peaceful Bliss Material World Chanting Spiritual Happiness

Author:George Harrison

“I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.”

Art Matter Term Subjects Materials Taste Spots Subject Matter Bad Taste

Author:Jerry Saltz

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