Pretend your opinions are the most refined on the planet. It's shocking how easily one can fool oneself on this point. If this seems like a leap, understand that a Red Queen game has to have most people believing they do poorly at it. However it works, success has to be uncommon . If everyone gets suddenly good at it, they become even more suddenly not.
Taste inexorably outpaces talent.
But, just as necessary, success has to be attainable by a few. Talent can't be too far behind taste. When your eye is caught by color, indulge. Most of all, get in touch with just how great you think it is. If it's fun to speculate why it looks great, by all means knock yourself out, though I don't think that'll help.