"When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu."

-- W. H. Auden

#Art Quotes #Taste Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.”
“Beauty has nothing to do with the size you wear. It has to do with what's in your heart.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 7, 2011
“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”
“When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.”
“Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.”

Source : "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne McGregor on dance, the White Stripes and the web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.
“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.”
“There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada
“Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.”

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