Style Quotes - Page 5

• I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

  Henri Rousseau

  Imagine, Labour

  Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books

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• He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Artistic Ability, Found

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Firsts, Call Me, Knows

  "LeRoy Neiman dies aged 91", www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

  George Washington

  May, Conviction, Disgusting

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.280

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Tasks

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Circles, Mind

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• One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Tears, Pages

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “The English humourists of the eighteenth century: a series of lectures”, p.276

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• It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mind, Literature, May

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.88

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• The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

  E. J. Hughes

  Looks, Stage, Scenery

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• A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

  James Joyce

  Country, Art, Mind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

  Don Watson

  Hate, Working It, My Own

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• The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

  Scott Kahn

  Song, Voice, Different

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• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Term, Scholar

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• The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Ideas, Feelings, Might

  Thomas De Quincey (1861). “Letters on Self-Education, with hints on style, and dialogues on political economy”, p.201

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• Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

  David Hume

  Expression, Embellishment, Disfigurement

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• Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

  Adolf Loos

  Inspirational, Fashion, Fear

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• Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

  Nina Garcia

  Knowing Who You Are, Doe, World

  Nina Garcia (2009). “The Little Black Book of Style”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

  Elie Saab

  Confidence, Attitude, Women

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

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• Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Pulse, Action

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• A good style fits like a good costume.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Costumes, Fit

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• Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

  Alexander Smith

  Literature, Immortal

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

  Edmund Burke

  Sublime, Easy, Natural

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• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Profound, Ornaments, Clearness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Reflexions et Maximes, 4, p. 758-59, 1922.

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• The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Different, Steps

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