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  • To show the relativity of what's good taste and what's not is something I like to play with.

    Play   Taste   Shows  
    "Jean Paul Gaultier's rich history as a costume designer deserves praise" by Simon Jablonski, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.
  • I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

    "Kitsch art: love it or loathe it?" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2013.
  • [The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

    People   Taste   Absurd  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure.

  • It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

    Art   Character   Impact  
    Clement Greenberg (1969). “Avant-garde Attitudes: New Art in the Sixties”
  • Good taste consists first upon fitness.

  • Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

  • There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

  • A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  • [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

    Effort   Taste   Century  
  • If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.

    Kids   Clothes   Wicked  
  • I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

    Thinking   Taste   Ifs  
    Source: www.towleroad.com
  • Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

  • Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

    Rocks   Littles   Taste  
    Source: www.theguardian.com
  • My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

    Thinking   Hands   Piano  
  • Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  • Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

    Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

  • Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

  • Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!

  • It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

    "Selected Literary Essays".
  • Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.

    Eye   Taste   Fields  
  • He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

  • There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

    Character   Eye   Knives  
    Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111
  • Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

    Failure   Taste   Excuse  
    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are ‘in good taste.’ Either you understand it or not.

  • We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

    John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.15
  • It would be the death of all creativity for me if I had to sit there and be concerned with the sensibilities of a fourteen-year-old kid. Some fourteen-year-olds would revel in the book, and some would be very sensitive to it, so you can't afford to worry about that. What I worry about is good taste and getting my message across by whatever means I can.

    Book   Creativity   Mean  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.

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