Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
Mel Brooks

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
Henry Flynt

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld

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.
Marcus V. Pollio

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Charles Baudelaire

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Edie Brickell

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
Jean de la Bruyere

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.
Kathy Mattea

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Judith Viorst

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Edouard Manet

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
Marc Maron

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Joshua Reynolds

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot