Simple style is like white light…
- 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
- Only great minds can afford a simple style. ~ Stendhal
- Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious. ~ Anatole France
- Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ~ Jean Cocteau
- Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- 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
- The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. ~ Raymond Chandler
- To give style to one’s character — a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle — even if he can afford more. ~ Massaru Ibuka
- Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself. ~ John Searle
- Well, that’s the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it. ~ Les Baxter
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual; the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at. ~ Oscar Wilde
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