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W.H. Auden

“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”

― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
tags: art, conventionality, taste
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