#2,806

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.

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#2,778

An intelligent touch can make the austerity imposed by poverty culminate in the perfection of taste.

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#2,671

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

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#2,591

The relativity of taste is an excuse adopted by ages that have bad taste.

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#2,467

If time, subjectively, makes us change taste, it also, objectively, makes things change flavor.

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#2,425

Man can be granted all types of liberties, except that of dressing himself and of edifying his taste.

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#2,375

To have good taste is above all to know what we should reject.

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#2,237

The possibility of selling to the public any man-made object in the name of art is a democratic phenomenon.
Democratic ages, in effect, foment the uncertainty of taste by abolishing every model.
If the most excellent work of art is still possible there, lesser art dies and extravagance abounds.
Where an authority exists, on the other hand, enjoying unfamiliar works is not easy, but taste is infallible when dealing with contemporary art, and lesser art flourishes.

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#1,998

The emancipated intellectual shares with his contemporaries the “personal taste” he prides himself on.

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#1,955

The palate is the only suitable laboratory for the analysis of texts.

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#1,953

We should distrust our taste but believe only in it.

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#1,942

The contemporary public is the first to readily buy what it neither needs nor likes.

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#1,909

Admiring only mediocre works, or reading only masterpieces, characterize the uncultivated reader.

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#1,856

The reactionary not only has the nose to sniff out the absurd, he also has the palate to savor it.

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#1,801

Taste does not dishonor itself by virtue of what it likes or detests, but rather by virtue of what it erroneously equates.

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#1,673

We must neither become petrified in our primitial tastes, nor sway in the breeze of others’ tastes.
The two commandments of taste.

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#1,594

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called nausea.

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#1,555

The press always chooses what to praise with impeccably bad taste.

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#1,447

Man today oscillates between the sterile rigidity of the law and the vulgar disorder of instinct.
He knows nothing of discipline, courtesy, good taste.

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#1,313

Posterity is not the whole of future generations.
It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.

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