Taste can refer to one's appreciation for aesthetic quality. Paul Graham notes, "I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste." Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ... This article is about Paul Graham, the computer programmer. ... Shrek is beautiful bitches! dont fuck with shrek or else ima rip u into threads. ...

The modern concept of "taste" is a product of the 16th century Italian style called Mannerism, named at the time for the maniera or "manner" in which a work of art was couched. More specifically, the idea of "taste" as a quality that is independent of the style that is simply its vehicle — though the style might be designated a taste, such as "the Antique taste"— was born in the circle of Pope Julius III and first realized at the Villa Giulia built on the edge of Rome in 1551 - 1555. Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart. ... Antiquity means ancient times, and may be used of any period before the Middle Ages. ... Julius III, né Gian Maria del Monte or Giovan Maria Giocci (September 10, 1487 - March 23, 1555) pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555, the last of the High Renaissance popes, was born at Rome, the son of a famous jurist. ... The Villa Giulia stands in an area of Rome known as the Vigna Vechia (which was once against the city walls) lying on the slopes where Monte Parioli descends to the Tiber. ...

To the Enlightenment, "taste" was still a universal character, which could be recognized by what pleased any cultured sensibility. With the shift in perspective that Romanticism brought, it began to be thought that, to the contrary, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and could be individually interpreted, with results that might be of equivalent aesthetic value. For the concept in mysticism, philosophy and psychology, see Enlightenment (concept) For the Hindu religious concept of enlightenment, see moksha For the Buddhist religious concept, see Bodhi, Satori For the Yoga concept of enlightenment, see Yogic Enlightenment For the period in European history, The Age of Enlightenment For the corresponding... Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ...

The significance of the term develops with the transition from its purely physical nature to being interpreted as an intellectual quality. It begins to be used in a metaphorical sense to refer to certain degrees of competence in relation to understanding of cultural practices. Taste is also closely related to the concept of discrimination, as being based on certain material experiences it can set distinctions between tasteful and tasteless or having a good taste or a bad taste, thus providing categories for social division and producing cultural hierarchy. In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ... To discriminate is to make a distinction. ... Material is the substance or matter from which something is or can be made, or also items needed for doing or creating something. ... A social class is, at its most basic, a group of people that have similar social status. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... A hierarchy (in Greek hieros, sacred, and arkho, rule) is a system of ranking and organizing things. ...