“A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.” ThinkingArtMatterBeautifulEmotionIndustryDisciplineTasteSkillsArt IsProportionWorks Of ArtBeautiful Thoughts Book:The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.” WorldReasonGriefFiguresSorrowTasteFairsSizeVainProportionTolerateAfflictionRidiculeLimbsNot FairConjunctionsUnbecoming Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen
“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.” DifferencesOpinionTasteDirectProportionCornyIrritatingAbout FriendshipIrritatedFunny FriendTrivialityFunny FriendshipFunny Best FriendFunniest Friends Author:W. H. Auden
“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.” CountryHouseGreaterSubjectsTastePhotographyHillsCharmProportionPortraitsStrengtheningPortrait Photography Author:William Henry Jackson
“Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.” PeopleShouldMeanWantedNamesEnergyAnswersPoorEnemyTasteLimitsEthicsBlameGuiltIslamBurningProportionIslamicRejectsAssociationOffensiveCartoonFascistsCartoonistKidnappingWesternersOutburstEmbassySackingPoor Taste Author:Amir Taheri
“Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.” WritingArtistTasteOriginalsProportionCreative Writing Author:William Wordsworth