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For me, music and life are all about style. Miles Davis
Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. Charles Bukowski
Style is ephemeral – Form is eternal. David Bomberg
What a place! A fucking palace. In he came. There he was. In those hand-made Italian leather shoes. Silk socks. The suit. Do me a favour. The man was class. A class act. Style. Fucking impeccable. What a man. Gangster No.1 ***** 2000 staring Paul Bettany & Malcolm McDowell & David Thewlis & Saffron Burrows & Kenneth Cranham & Jamie Foreman & Eddie Marsan et al, director Paul McGuigan
Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence. Star Trek: The Next Generation s2e13: Time Squared, Riker
Fashions fade, style is eternal. Yves Saint Laurent
The difference between style and fashion is quality. Giorgio Armani
Style is life! It is the very life-blood of thought! Gustave Flaubert, 1821-80
Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress,
Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. Samuel Wesley
All styles are good except the tiresome kind. Voltaire
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. Voltaire
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. Martin Amis
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal, cited Gore Vidal, The United States of Amnesia, attributions
Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul. Oscar Wilde, Reviews
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. Vladimir Nabokov
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. Oscar de la Renta
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. Jean Cocteau
Such labour’d nothings, in so strange a style,
Amaze th’ learn’d, and make the learned smile. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1709
The style is the man. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, discourse French Academie 1753
Style is the dress of thoughts. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. Matthew Arnold, G W E Russell, Collections and Recollections, 1898
When he [Ray Robinson] crossed a hotel lobby, people stared in admiration. Ray was born to wear a crown. No champion boxed or lived with his style. Melvin Durslag