People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
Deciding taste is egotistical, but that's how taste is established, by somebody having the courage to say, 'I don't want to sell that.'
I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.