“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste.”
Sucesivos Escolios a un Texto Implícito (1992)
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“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
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Yves Klein (1928–1962) French artist
I wish to play with human feeling, with its 'morbidity' in a cold and ferocious manner. Only very recently I have become a sort of gravedigger of art (oddly enough, I am using the very terms of my enemies). Some of my latest works have been coffins and tombs. During the same time I succeeded in painting with fire, using particularly powerful and searing gas flames, some of them measuring three to four meters high. I use these to bathe the surface of the painting in such a way that it registered the spontaneous trace of fire.
Quote from Klein's 'Chelsea Hotel Manifesto', 1961; from the Yves Klein Archives - archived from the original on 15 January 2013; as cited on Wikipedia: Yves Klein
After the opening of his unsuccessful exhibition at Leo Castelli's Gallery, New York 1961, Klein stayed with Rotraut Uecker (fr) at the Chelsea Hotel for the duration of the exhibition. While there, he wrote the 'Chelsea Hotel Manifesto', a proclamation of the 'multiplicity of new possibilities'
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John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
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“Ladies have a bad taste in men. I'm not that good looking.”
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”
Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal
The Thief's Journal (1949)
“A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“What is intoxicating about bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of offensiveness.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire. <br class="br"> XVIII http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Fus%C3%A9es#XVIII <br class="br">Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Fusées (1867)