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"The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful."
"Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise."
"Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words."
"I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it."
"The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures."
"There is something false in this search for a purely feminine writing style. Language, such as it is, is inherited from a masculine society, and it contains many male prejudices. We must rid language of all that. Still, a language is not something created artificially; the proletariat can't use a different language from the bourgeoisie, even if they use it differently, even if from time to time they invent something, technical words or even a kind of worker's slang, which can be very beautiful and very rich. Women can do that as well, enrich their language, clean it up."
"The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do."
"Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style."
"Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it."
"The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself."
"One does not consider style, because style is."
"To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content."
"In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation."
"'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."
"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."
"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style."
"I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much."
"Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress."
"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."
