Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan
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  1. You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste! - Ed Wood

  2. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels. - Henry Adams

  3. 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

  4. Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. - Marshall McLuhan

  5. It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. - Salvador Dali

More Quotes By Marshall McLuhan
  1. With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system...

  2. Art is whatever you can get away with.

  3. A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

  4. Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

  5. American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

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