Style Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

  Camille Pissarro

  Done, Satisfaction, Moments

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• We had a chance to see a lot of different styles of play and you had to adapt to the different style each team plays. That?s going to help us come tournament time because the game in the Pac-10 is different from the Big East and we know how to adapt to the different styles. I?m glad I had that opportunity.

  Allan Ray

  Team, Opportunity, Games

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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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• It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

  Jack White

  Art, Emotional, Impact

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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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• 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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• A lot of the songs I write are like songs that I've never been able to find on any record, but that I've always wanted to hear. Or maybe in a style I already loved, but I was looking for something in it that I wasn't hearing yet.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Records

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Order

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

  Seneca the Younger

  Riding, Boast

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• PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Views, Editors, Feet

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.180, University of Georgia Press

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• A change of style is a change of meaning.

  Wallace Stevens

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• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Reading, Giving

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

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• It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

  Georges Braque

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

  J. B. Priestley

  School, Men, Speech

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Failure, Grace, Pay

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• An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Language, Shyness

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

  Aristotle

  Metaphor, Command

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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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• You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Thinking, Satire, Scandalous

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• Indistinctness is my forte.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Forte

  "The Life of J.M.W. Turner,: ... Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians". Book by Walter Thornbury, volume 2, p. 243, 1862.

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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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• 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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