One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.