Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

Marcel Duchamp

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

Henri de Lubac

“It is not always charity, alas, which has grown greater, or which has become more enlightened: it is often faith, the taste for the things of eternity, which has grown less. Injustice and violence are still reigning; but they are now in the service of degraded passions”. –Henri de Lubac

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Either you think — or else others have to think for you, and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you”. –F. Scott Fitzgerald