Style Quotes - Page 11

• One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

  Alexander Theroux

  Stupid, Enemy, Critics

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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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• It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

  David Bergen

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Meals, Salad

  1978 Metropolitan Life,'Food For Thought and Vice Versa'.

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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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• 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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• Quality is always in style.

  Robert Genn

  Quality

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• Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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

  Theophilus London

  Inspire, My Friends, Knows

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• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  Olivia Holt

  Simple, Kate

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

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• Basically, my hair is very dry from all the backcombing! Hairdressers prefer if your hair is dry and damaged, as it makes it easier to style.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Hair, Dry, Easier

  "Georgia Jagger's Beauty Secrets". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. March 28, 2013.

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• Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Writing, Kind, Consciousness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged. Style is to be simple.

  Elsa Peretti

  Hate, Simple, Perfect

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• I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Ideas, Feelings, Moments

  "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Peculiar, Taste

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.22

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• It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions; but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Christian, People, Quality

  "Of The Pulpit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.

  Robert Kennedy

  Keys, Doors, Darkness

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Creative, Sublime

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Doubt

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

  Juan Felipe Herrera

  Spices, Tradition, Poet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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