Style Quotes - page 4

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. (Rudolf Arnheim)
I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. View quote
Sue Wicks
As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings. View quote
Thomas Ligotti
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. View quote
Aaliyah
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. View quote
Alain de Botton
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. View quote
Stella Gibbons
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. ... If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules. View quote
William Hazlitt
My peculiarity is that I don't have a particular style of investing or, more exactly, I try to change my style to fit the conditions. View quote
George Soros
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. View quote
Willem de Kooning
Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style. View quote
Jim Butcher
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. (Georges Braque)
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects. View quote
Theo van Doesburg
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is. View quote
Bruce Lee
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don't know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. View quote
Gerhard Richter
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) View quote
Gerhard Richter
There is nothing to write about, you say. Well, then, write and let me know just this,-that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well. View quote
Pliny the Younger
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror-for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. View quote
Boris Spassky
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. (Steven Brust)
If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists. View quote
Steven Weinberg
[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious,” "accurate,” and "natural” style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style. (44). View quote
Epictetus