“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.” MayPersonsArtArtistDecisionCareersMysteryInfluenceEmotionalProductsTasteArt IsEducatedPersonal Taste Author:Ernest West Basden
“For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must call it literature even though you find no other soul to agree with you, and if you dislike a book you must declare that it is not literature though a million voices should shout you that you are wrong. The ultimate decision will be made by Time.” IfsShouldMadeBookSoulLiteratureVoiceDecisionMillionsJudgingTasteTestsUltimateAgreeContemporaryDislikeNew BooksContemporary LiteraturePersonal Taste Book:The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own Source: The March of Literature: From Confucius' Day to Our Own
“The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.” BelieveCultureInfluenceTasteMiracleAssumingContraryMoodRationalSpiteIdiosyncrasiesPersonal Taste Author:John Cowper Powys
“Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.” TwoSexStupidTasteHorrorCreaturesSexualityAssertionPoignantAnalyticsFlairFelinePersonal Taste Book:Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.” PeopleCharacterRoomsComedyTasteTragedyDrivenUncomfortableFlawsEnjoyableSketch ComedyPersonal Taste Author:Vince Vaughn
“Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.” ShouldKindCertainValuesCultureGrowsProcessCommonGrowing UpTasteTolerateSubculturePersonal Taste Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I would say that I'm a really eclectic music lover, so I love the fact that one month I will be doing one kind of music and the next month I will be doing something very different and I think that really works for me in terms of my own personal tastes and styles.” ThinkingKindDifferentFactsNextTermMy OwnStyleMonthsLoversTasteEclecticMusic LoverPersonal Taste Author:Christopher Lennertz
“I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantImportantHomeFormUsedEnjoySoundStupidFineTasteSellingUsed To BeRealisingNot StupidMp3Personal Taste Author:Butch Walker
“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.” CareersRecordsToo MuchCuttingStageParticularWillingTasteApproachTrackEditorsProvenInputEditorialsTrack RecordPersonal Taste Author:Grant Morrison
“I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.” WantWellsKindModernRocksTasteBandMusic IsAppreciateGuitarPopsAlternativesGarageGrungePersonal TasteAlternative Music Author:Al Yankovic
“My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.” KnowsTryingLongSaidSongRealizingMy OwnCrazyEffectsTasteLong TimePicksStudiosTargetParodyDrive Me CrazyPersonal Taste Author:Al Yankovic
“The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.” PeopleWholeCultureLostLosesPersonalityTasteInstrumentsDeclinePersonal TasteNational Culture Author:Robert Graves
“'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.” MeanSoulFactsUseActionEnjoyClassRecordsStyleGeniusCircumstancesTasteAchievementClothesClaimsIndividualityGossipMediocreHallmarkSnobConventionalityPersonal Taste Author:James Hillman
“From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious like Mike Oeming's drawings. They're so unique to comics, but they're a voice.” HardVoiceStyleNeededTasteUniqueDrawingVisualsMikeAdaptingPersonal TasteLike Mike Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“Being able to hear an opinion. And then how to apply that opinion is something I am learning and working with every day. What can be tricky is how to differentiate a good suggestion that you should apply to your work [from] someone's personal taste at their opinionated best.” ShouldAbleOpinionTasteSuggestionsTrickyDifferentiateOpinionatedPersonal Taste Author:Tori Amos
“The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it is no longer a question of either cultural orthodoxy or personal taste.” LiteratureInterestingTasteArgumentPrizeBobSongwritersDylanOrthodoxyNobelNobel PrizePersonal Taste Author:David Bennun
“The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the landscape leads us in the direction of disorder and death. They are categorically evil. These dispositions are destroying our only home-planet and other organisms that share it. They defeat our need to care about where we are and the things in place there. They prompt us to feel that civilization is not worth carrying on. They rob us of our identity and our will to live. These things are not about personal taste or style.” WayNeedsFeelsMadeHomeCareEvilCommonShareStyleIdentityPlanetsCivilizationTasteDefeatLandscapeVisibleDisorderAggressiveDestroyingOrganismsDispositionSurroundingsPromptsEntropyCarrying OnWill To LiveIncoherencePersonal Taste Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.” ThinkingCareersTastePersonal Taste Author:Christina Ricci