taste
musings on taste
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taste
Quality emerges from the complexity of the system in action ; it is in the how rather than the what. Thus, when Quality is broken down into parts and analyzed, its essence is lost. This explains why analysis alone has trouble discerning the authentic from the artific ial. Moreover, Quality frozen in a theory or process cannot be recognized in suffi... See more
Anonymous • Conviction
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Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
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When I’m traveling, I like to bring back one thing where I say, This could only exist here . As unattainable as it may seem, I want to have things in my life where I say, ‘I can’t link to this. I came upon it by chance, it’s imperfect, it has a soul, and probably no one else has it.’”
Blackbird Spyplane: The unlinked thing with a soul. It can feel
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- What are you being paid for?
- The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist.
I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju
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An entire metric of thought which is both impactful but also ignored
Taste – or lack of it – is the silent metric that permeates absolutely everything we create, and which has a far bigger bearing on success or failure than we’d care to admit.
The ability to intuitively discern the intrinsic harmony within something.
nature is intrinsically harmonious
how can you cultivate taste?
elevate your cultural diet so you can elevate your taste —> genre crossing ability.
View appreciation as a general skill
by learning to appreciate we learn to discern. by discerning we learn to decide. by deciding we learn to strategise.
What Jobs is referring to is the fundamental difference between "builders" and craftsmen, or why even though engineering builds, it is design which establishes . Essentially, products—no matter if they're technological in nature or not—do not exist in a vacuum. On the contrary, every single product worth its salt is designed to exist within a socie... See more
Alpha • On Founder Taste
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