Taste is fundamental guidance in creative and design work beyond technical rules.

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• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.783
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• Numeric scoring on aesthetics is measurably unreliable; inter-scorer agreement on 0–10 scale for taste is poor.claim0.759
• The art of making something living is sought again and again, avidly — it is like food.claim0.759
• Creativity comes about when we discover the new within a structure already latent in the present.quote0.756
  Alexander's definition of genuine creativity, opposing arbitrary image-making.
• Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.755
  From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
• What pleasing yourself truly IS, is the process in which we create living structure.claim0.753
  The culminating identity claim: the act of true self-pleasing and the creation of living structure are one and the same process.
• Creativity comes from discovering the new within a structure already latent in the present; respect for what is leads to the most beautiful discoveries.claim0.750
  Alexander's definition of true creativity.
• Concepts are not just subjective mental constructs, but are objective features of a system's design: increments of functionality that were consciously introduced by a designer to serve particular purposes.concept0.749
  Central definition from the abstract.