„On questions of taste there is notoriously the widest divergence of opinion./…/ if, from a survival point of view, one taste be as good as another, it is not the varieties in taste which should cause surprise so much as the uniformities. To be sure, the uniformities have often no deep aesthetic roots. They represent /…/ tendencies to agreement, which govern our social ritual, and thereby make social life possible.“
Theism and humanism
Arthur Balfour
britischer Politiker; Premierminister (1902–1905) und Außen… 1848 - 1930Ähnliche Zitate
— Kenneth E. Boulding British-American economist 1910 - 1993
Quelle: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 12
— Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet 1844 - 1889
Letter to his father, Manley Hopkins (16 October 1866)
Letters, etc
— Michel Bréal French philologist 1832 - 1915
Quelle: Essai de semantique, 1897, p. 104-5 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:14).
„I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one.“
— John Updike American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic 1932 - 2009
Interview in New York Times Book Review (10 April 1977). later published in Conversations with John Updike (1994) edited by James Plath, p. 113
Kontext: I think “taste” is a social concept and not an artistic one. I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo United States federal judge 1870 - 1938
Page 112
Other writings, The Nature of the Judicial Process (1921)
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg German scientist, satirist 1742 - 1799
E 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
„To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.“
— John Waters American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
— Bob Keeshan United States Marine 1927 - 2004
Interview with Steven V. Roberts in The New York Times (1965); as quoted in "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" in The New York Times (24 January 2004)
— Henry James American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843 - 1916
"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888).
„Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.“
— Charles Bukowski, buch Hollywood
Quelle: Hollywood
„It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste.“
— John Buchan, buch A Lodge in the Wilderness
Quelle: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 83
— François de La Rochefoucauld French author of maxims and memoirs 1613 - 1680
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), III. On Taste
