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

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.

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

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

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.