Quotes About Expression

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.

In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Whatever I write has to evolve around my taste in music at that moment, because that always changes.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay within the boundaries of good taste and don't block the view of other fans.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

I remember the Neil Young brand hitting me very hard immediately. He wasn't an acquired taste. I loved him immediately.

I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.

Someone like Allan Holdsworth sometimes plays the wackiest things, but does it with panache, such taste.

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.