Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Interpretation
Style reflects oneβs true self and expression, ignoring external judgments.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individuality and confidence in expressing oneself. Gore Vidal suggests that true style comes from a deep understanding of oneself and a commitment to oneβs own voice, without being overly concerned about how others perceive it.
In practice
In a speech about self-confidence at a fashion event, one might quote Gore Vidal to emphasize the importance of personal style.
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically β that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.
People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.
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