“Talent is the enemy of taste. Taste is the enemy of talent.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Talent is the enemy of taste. Taste is the enemy of talent.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski book Hollywood
Source: Hollywood
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. <br class="br">François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm. <br class="br">Misattributed
Friedrich Schiller book On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Letter 8
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)
“To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.”
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Le bon goût, le tact et le bon ton, ont plus de rapport que n'affectent de le croire les Gens de Lettres. Le tact, c'est le bon goût appliqué au main- tien et à la conduite; le bon ton, c'est le bon goût appliqué aux discours et à la conversation.
Maximes et Pensées, #427
Maxims and Considerations, #427
“To judge things of taste, we must give ourselves time to taste them.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Passion paralyzes good taste.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels.”
Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker