You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!
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Ed Wood
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
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Henry Adams
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Marshall McLuhan
It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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Salvador Dali
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Philosophy .. .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of...
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
