
“In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
A collection of quotes on the topic of taste, likeness, doing, good.
“In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Ich sage ihnen vor Gott, als ein ehrlicher Mann, ihr Sohn ist der größte Componist, den ich von Person und den Nahmen nach kenne: er hat geschmack, und über das die größte Compositionswissenschaft.
Quoted in a letter from Leopold Mozart to Maria Anna Mozart (1785-02-16)
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
This quotation was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer.
Misattributed
Variant: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.”
Quote by Harriet & Sidney Janis in 'Marchel Duchamp: Anti-Artist' in View magazine 3/21/45; reprinted in Robert Motherwell, Dada Painters and Poets (1951)
1921 - 1950
Variant: I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
Source: Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation (1983)
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
February 1954 The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5 as quoted in Woman as Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 38
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it.
Context: The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write as the birds sing, as the primitives dance their rituals. If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it. When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
14.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Letter to d'Alembert (1781) cited in R. Laubenbacher, D. Pengelly: Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers (1999) Springer, pp. 233–234.
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)
Canto XVII, lines 58–60 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
“I am not at all interested in immortality, only in the taste of tea.”
From Lu Tong (also spelled as Lu Tung)
Misattributed
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
“It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.”
Countdown interview, Mascot Airport, Sydney, April 1976.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) selected and compiled by James Wood.
Théorie des peines et des récompenses (1811); translation by Richard Smith, The Rationale of Reward, J. & H. L. Hunt, London, 1825, Bk. 3, Ch. 1
Context: Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure … There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
Quoted in The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by her spiritual director Ven. Germanus, trans. A. M. O'Sullivan, 1999, p. 258.
Source: Letter to Edward Lytton Bulwer from Constantinople, Turkey (27 December 1830), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 174
“I’m a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.”
“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
Variant: I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best
“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.”
Source: Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
“I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.”
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”
Source: Leonardo on Painting: An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career
“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
Quote in Monet's letter to his art-dealers [[wBernheim-Jeune|G. and J. Berheim-Jeune], Venice, 1912; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 72
1900 - 1920
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
Quoted in Steven Daly, "The Maverick King," http://www.deppimpact.com/mags/transcripts/vanityfair_nov04.html Vanity Fair (November 2004)
Speech (3 March 1926), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Coinage Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0006/S.0006.192603030003.html
Source: Essai de semantique, 1897, p. 104-5 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:14).
Preface to Pantheon Edition
Bandits (1969)
No. 93 (16 June 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
"The Beauty of a Broken Spirit—Atheism", The Way of the Master season 1 episode 7, 2003-05-12
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIV Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
“There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.”
Interview, The Hollywood Reporter, 1974
Mais, quand d’un passé ancien rien ne subsiste, après la mort des êtres, après la destruction des choses, seules, plus frêles mais plus vivaces, plus immatérielles, plus persistantes, plus fidèles, l’odeur et la saveur restent encore longtemps, comme des âmes, à se rappeler, à attendre, à espérer, sur la ruine de tout le reste, à porter sans fléchir, sur leur gouttelette presque impalpable, l’édifice immense du souvenir.<p>Et dès que j’eus reconnu le goût du morceau de madeleine trempé dans le tilleul que me donnait ma tante (quoique je ne susse pas encore et dusse remettre à bien plus tard de découvrir pourquoi ce souvenir me rendait si heureux), aussitôt la vieille maison grise sur la rue, où était sa chambre, vint comme un décor de théâtre.
"Overture"
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)
"Harriet Tubman never said this — it comes from one of the scores of juvenile Harriet Tubman fictionalized biographies." — Kate Larson, Harriet Tubman biographer.
Disputed
Letter to E. Hoffmann Price (29 July 1936), published in Selected Letters Vol. V, p. 290
Non-Fiction, Letters, to E. Hoffmann Price
Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 483
Non-Fiction, Letters, to James Ferdinand Morton, Jr.
1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)