Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Quote

The more sublime efforts of art have no effect at all upon uncultivated minds. Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. All that we receive at birth is the faculty for creating such taste in ourselves and for cultivating it, just as we are born with a disposition for receiving the laws of society and for conforming to their usages. It is up to this point, and no further, that one may say that taste is natural to us.

As quoted in: Artists on Art, from the XIV to the XX Century (Pantheon books, 1947), p. 216