谢画家的艺术欣赏讲座，我也来听课了。

“And I frequently hand out David Hume’s essay, “Of the Standard of Taste,” for discussion.

Good taste requires that a lot of things come together — a brain that is capable of acute visual discrimination, a broad range of experience in looking at visual things (coupled with a concentration in looking at the best visual things), thinking about what objects look like, abstracted from their utility, having an open mind when encountering new visual stimuli, possessing a willingness to weigh the relative visual merits of the objects we look at, and — it should be unnecessary to add, but it’s important — being in a generally sound mental and physical state when looking, thinking, and weighing. (Some knowledge of historical context is needed, too, but when it outweighs everything else, it leads to sterile responses to art.)”