• A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.~ Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.~ Plato
• Every fashion goes out of style.~ Japanese Proverb
• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.~ Edna W. Chase
• Fashion is general; style is individual.~ Edna Woolman
• Fashions fade, but style is eternal.~ Yves Saint-Laurent
• Forget about style; worry about results.~ Bobby Orr
• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.~ Pablo Picasso
• Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.~ Peter McKay
• If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• 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
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.~ Frank Zappa
• Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.~ Margaret Oliphant
• Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.~ Anatole France
• Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.~ Pete Johnson
• 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 knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.~ Gore Vidal
• 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 something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.~ Freya Stark
• Style is the dress of thoughts.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
• Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.~ Andre Maurois
• Style is the image of character.~ Edward Gibbon
• Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
• Style may be defined as the proper words in the proper places.~ Jonathan Swift
• Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.~ Linda Ellerbee
• Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.~ Stephen Bayley
• The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.~ Jonathan Swift
• The style is the man himself.~ Greek Proverb
• The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.~ Edward Gibbon
• 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
• Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.~ R. S. White
• 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
• You don’t learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.~ Shalom Harlow

You may also wish to read

• Fashion is made to become unfashionable…

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 5:22 am and is filed under Famous Quotes and Sayings, Style. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.