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Taste for Makers
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- Strangely enough, if you want to make something that will appeal to future generations, one way to do it is to try to appeal to past generations.
from Taste for Makers by Paul Graham
Agalia Tan added 3mo ago
- As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.from Taste for Makers by Paul Graham
sari added 5mo ago
- Relativism is fashionable at the moment, and that may hamper you from thinking about taste, even as yours grows. But if you come out of the closet and admit, at least to yourself, that there is such a thing as good and bad design, then you can start to study good design in detail. How has your taste changed? When you made mistakes, what caused you ... See more
from Taste for Makers by Paul Graham
phoebe added 5mo ago