“A longlife interest” is a book that contains the interview
performed by the french philosopher Didier Eribon to the great Ernst Gombrich
from 1991 to 1992 in his residence at London. Art and Science are interlaced by
gombrich’s words, as a Twentieth Century Leonardo, who doesn't find any
trouble bringing one into line with another. Gombrich used to make reference to others writers and thinkers in
order to strenghten his thoughts and is here where I have found one of the more
significant texts I have read these months. These words have come to us from “Orator”
by Cicero, roman writer, politician and great rethoric from 1st century. His
ideas about “Taste”, are suitable nowadays and this makes one to think how little
can be written about Aesthetic these days. This paragraph is about artistic “Taste”
and you are not going to find here any important conclusión but simple thoughts
about “Taste” and art perception we hold nowadays. The words here: