Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Taste links intellect and senses to improve our experience.
- In plain terms
- Taste connects thinking and feeling to make things better.
- What can you take from it?
- Taste balances thought and feeling.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is taste?
- How do you judge art?
Another view
It may oversimplify how taste works.
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