Good Taste?
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- randomname
Define good taste.
Is it very important to a successful career?
- uan0
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." - Marshall McLuhan
- Llyod0
Never heard of it
- albums0
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.” - Lester Beall
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“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing” - Pablo Picasso
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“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”
- Oscar Wilde
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“A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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“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 Dalí
- albums0
“The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste”
- Joe Orton
- set0
Impossible to define. Popular taste might be more accurate. Good taste is subjective, I think. Maybe not.
- randomname0
The quotes seem to say "Good Taste ≠ Originality".
- uan0
"The problem with good taste is, that absolutely, everybody thinks they have it!"
- Charles Saatchi- +1ApeRobot
- hmm.. I like this...vaxorcist
- Including him. http://www.saatchi-g…randomname
- i_was0
good taste is important and it does exist, when you see someone with very bad taste you think "good taste does exist" and it's not subjective.
- Llyod0
fuck, I'm the best artist in the world
- vaxorcist0
I once worked with a creative director who said something like....
If your design is in good taste, your copywriting can flirt with bad taste... but if both your design and your copywriting are in excessively good taste, nobody will notice your ad.
- chris_himself_20
BACON!
- madneo0
Japan doesn't give a shit
- randomname0
Japan has good taste? And pop culture obsessions.
- fredddddd0
The most successful companies have good taste.