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Susan Sontag2 quotes
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the "off," of things-being-what-they-are-not... The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful. — Susan Sontag · 1964The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. — Susan Sontag · 1964Clement Greenberg1 quote
Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times. — Clement Greenberg · 1939Edward FitzGerald1 quote
Taste is the feminine of genius. — Edward FitzGerald · 1877Hugh Blair1 quote
In some men only the feeble glimmerings of Taste appear; the beauties which they relish are of the coarsest kind; and of these they have but a weak and confused impression, while in others, Taste rises to an acute discernment, and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties. — Hugh Blair · 1787Jean de La Bruyere1 quote
Between good sense and good taste there is the same difference as between cause and effect. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688John Ruskin1 quote
Taste...Is the only morality...Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are. — John Ruskin · 1864Lucretius1 quote
One man's meat is another man's poison. — Lucretius · 100 BCSteve Jobs1 quote
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And what that means is...I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. — Steve Jobs · 1996The Rolling Stones1 quote
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste. — The Rolling Stones · 1968