Subjective Taste Quotes

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

I just made pictures I would've liked to see.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty. What is beauty, anyway? There's no such thing. I never "appreciate," any more than I "like." I love it or I hate.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.