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"Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime."
"Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man."
"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."
"The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor."
"Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging."
"Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear."
"Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music."
"Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before."
"The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't."
"Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself."
"That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues."
"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."
"Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy."
"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style."
"I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour."
"Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store."
"Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection."
"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
"We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is."
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
