style quotes

• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. (Andre Maurois) [literary style]
• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. (Vladimir Nabokov) [literary style/essence/]
• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. (Pablo Picasso) [god/artist/literary style]
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [character/literary style/]
• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. (Sam Brown) [people/literary style]
• When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball. (Raymond Chandler) [literature/matter/literary style/situation]
• The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. (Raymond Chandler) [thing/literary style/literary style/time]
• A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. (Coco Chanel) [literary style/literary style/incompatibility/literary style]
• Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [literary style/thoughts/literary style/willpower]
• If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [literary style/thoughts]
• I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. (Ernest Hemingway) [literary style]
• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. (Karl Kraus) [literary style/loss/ability]
• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. (Bruce Lee) [more/literary style/system]
• Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. (Andre Malraux) [age/literary style/music]
• Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand. (Andre Maurois) [literary style]
• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. (Pablo Picasso) [god/artist/literary style]
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. ( Plato) [beauty/literary style/]
• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. ( Seneca) [literary style/mind/content]
• Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. (Susan Sontag) [literary style/literary style/love]
• In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. (Susan Sontag) [literary style/art/art/more]
• The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. (Jonathan Swift) [words/literary style]
• Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places. (Jonathan Swift) [literary style/words]
• Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. (Henry David Thoreau) [soul & body/god/literary style/painters]
• Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn. (Gore Vidal) [literary style]
• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. (Walt Whitman) [literary style/destroy]
• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. (Oscar Wilde) [artist/artist/literary style]
• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. (Oscar Wilde) [literary style/chaos/language]
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. (Frank Zappa) [change//literary style/willpower]
• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. (Cameron Diaz) [literary style]
• I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously. (Mariah Carey) [think/literary style/take/seriously]
• I like to show off when I'm on stage, but I don't like to show on, like, 'Come in and check it out. Look how rich I am.' That's not my style. ( Madonna) [stage/look/literary style]

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