Quotes of Style - somelinesforyou

“ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ To me, style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body — both go together, they can't be separated. ”

- Jean Luc Godard

“ A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. ”

- Coco Chanel

“ Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ”

- Don Delillo

“ Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. ”

- Peter McKay

“ He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. ”

- Paul Klee

“ He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ In the final analysis, "style" is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ”

- Renata Adler

“ Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. ”

- Margaret Oliphant

“ Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ”

- Willem de Kooning

“ Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. ”

- Martin Amis

“ Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ Style is the image of character. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. ”

- Jonathan Swift

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

- Blaise Pascal

“ Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician. ”

- Ken Hill

“ I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community. ”

- Lil’ Kim

“ Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously. ”

- Mariah Carey
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