Quotes on Style

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

For there was never yet philosoper_x000D_ _x000D_ That could endure the toothache patiently,_x000D_ _x000D_ However they have writ the style of gods,_x000D_ _x000D_ And made a push at chance and sufferance.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.