Style Quotes - Page 10

• No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dark, Echoes, Cities

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.169, Faber & Faber

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• I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 14, 2000.

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• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

  Cennino Cennini

  Mountain, Cracks, Looks

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• If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.

  Cennino Cennini

  Mind, Today, Tomorrow

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• Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

  Martin Seligman

  Hope, Two, Dimensions

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Opposites, Events

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.92, Vintage

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• Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Extroverts, Standards

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

  Susan Cain

  Class, Two, Personality

  "Giving Introverts Permission to Be Themselves". Interview with Zosia Bielski, www.theglobeandmail.com. January 26, 2012.

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• People stereotype pop stars, but Christina [Aguilera] proves them wrong with her unique style and talent.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Stars, Unique, People

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• Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

  LeRoy Neiman

  People, Trying, Agents

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• Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Doe, Ugly

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• The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

  Philip Schaff

  Design, New Testament, Universal

  Philip Schaff (2013). “Church History”, p.461, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Venice, Study

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• You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

  Jack White

  Artist, Frustration, Careers

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

  Roy Ayers

  Play, Smooth Jazz, People

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• Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

  Vincente Minnelli

  New York, Dancing, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Shout Out, My Dad

  "Theophilus London Was So Fresh, So Clean, On 'when I Was 17'" by Sara Waber, www.mtv.com. September 9, 2011.

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

  Robert Bateman

  Artist, Realistic, Abstract

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

  John Muir

  Squirrels, Color, Bird

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Communication, Ideas, Introducing

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• The great style icons are tomboys

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Icons, Style Icons

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• My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

  Donald Fagen

  Player, Quirky, Littles

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• A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they dont even know it.

  Theophilus London

  Inspire, My Friends, Knows

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