Quotes on Good Taste

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Create, and be true to yourself, and depend only on your own good taste.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.