A small paintbrush drawing a curling teal stroke that divides into two, on a warm white background.

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Pablo Picasso

Ah good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker greets 'good taste' with mock delight, then calls it dreadful. The claim is that taste, the urge to stay proper and agreeable, works against creativity, because invention needs risk, roughness and a willingness to displease. It reads as a provocative defence of daring over refinement.

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