“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.” DoeArtDifferentTurnsTasteOffersJudgmentStandardsOrdinaryArguingCampsAestheticReverseAxesArt And Life Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.” WayMindTurnsNamesEasyColorTasteEasy WayCategorizing Author:Ali Banisadr
“Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.” MeanTurnsEvilForcePleasureMoralVirtueTasteImportanceVicesRegulationElegance Book:Works Source: Works
“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.” MenWholeBodyMightTurnsLostCommunityCitiesDyingHavensTasteBusyGravesOccasionsMatesGood TasteBreachUndertaker Book:Lost Haven Source: Lost Haven
“The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.” IfsMenMightTurnsTasteHorrorInfiniteVicesProofInfinityWrong Turn Author:Charles Baudelaire