As Philip K Dick was oft to remark, revelation can come from the trash layer of culture, from a deodorant ad, from a bad actor in a turkey movie. Make yourself open. In Hamnet, upon entering the Globe, Agnes asks her brother “what do I do?” He replies: “Open your heart.”

Your tastes can be refined by logic, a social ethics, a cultural standard of beauty, but the authority arrow goes inward, not outward. In the real world, you have to still 'show your work.' An alliance of personal tastes don't cut it.