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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

— Stephen Bayley

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✓Similar Perspectives

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

— Hattie Carnegie

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

— Noah Baumbach

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

— Dana Goodyear

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

— Pink

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.

— Comte de Lautreamont

When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.

— Mario Batali

✗Opposing Perspectives

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

— Mason Cooley

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

— Delphine de Girardin

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps