A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.