For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.
Francoise Gilot
Related Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. Y... RUGGIERO RICCI Honestly, if you want me to keep it 100, Marilyn Manson has as much style as Kanye West and Pharrell... LIL UZI VERT You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi... IRIS APFEL New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. ... BENJAMIN BOOKER I do not do selfies! That's a tough one because I don't do selfies, but I think it's all... NINA GARCIA If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. QUENTIN CRISP If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise. VIDAL SASSOON Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn... EILEEN MYLES Future's not everybody. The people who are taking my style are like my babies. I've got a tr... NAYVADIUS CASH I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic tha... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, t... JON HUNTSMAN, JR. I never analyzed whether I had a style or whether I didn't. I wouldn't be able to describe m... MARION COTILLARD I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds ... BELLA THORNE So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every... KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can'... JOHN SEARLE I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, w... STACY LONDON My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's ... EDDIE TRUNK Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lo... LEO HOWARD If you're going to do something, do it with style! JASON STATHAM It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear... CAROLINA HERRERA I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like yo... ANDRE BENJAMIN I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of ... JAMES TENNEY Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's... BILL BLASS Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one wil... DAYMOND JOHN Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will... DOUGLAS BRUNT Big things can be changed, if you want all sit-down style restaurants, tell them in the survey. If y... CHAD MILLER Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewh... SAM KINISON One man's style must not be the rule of another's. JANE AUSTEN If we don't like the Human Rights Council, then let's not fund it. We should pick and choose... ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn... HAROLD PRINCE In terms of tackling different subjects, I can't really think of anything I wouldn't want to... CARY FUKUNAGA My style kind of differs - sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes ... HAILEY BALDWIN If you're going to buy a suit, don't buy one off the peg if you can afford not to. Go to a t... TAMER HASSAN As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a st... BOZ SCAGGS I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap. OLIVIA COLMAN To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and th... JEAN-LUC GODARD Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you... CHRISTOPHER MILLER Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing... GARETH GATES You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. TIBOR FISCHER 'Death Sentence' really is a throwback to the '70s style revenge drama with moments of a... JAMES WAN Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same mo... SEAMUS DEVER My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick... TAYLOR SWIFT If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can... JULIANNA BAGGOTT It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the styl... DON KING Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're th... LAURA BENANTI So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because every... STEVEN SPIELBERG Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be g... WALE You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but i... HANK AZARIA Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my p... LIEV SCHREIBER I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't e... LIL UZI VERT Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part... KARA SWISHER If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the ma... MIKE NICHOLS As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... ERYKAH BADU The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards f... TOM WOLFE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and ... PSY You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you ... ALESSIA CARA My style is clubby and groovy - you can jump to it, but you don't just have to just jump to it. ... ANSEL ELGORT I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist... LUKE COMBS I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every b... PHILIP JOHNSON That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awk... PSY Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepte... LINDSEY STIRLING Let's be clear: no one is forced into hazing. If you don't want to be hazed, don't join ... MILO YIANNOPOULOS It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. EVAN HUNTER I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn'... WATKIN TUDOR JONES I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been ... DARYL HANNAH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There's a particular style that is very Peru that you don't see anywhere else; it's got ... MARIO TESTINO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's ver... KATE WALSH I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he... MOHSIN HAMID If all you can do is a bad thing, well at least do it with your style! TOBA BETA I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a crea... SCOTT WEILAND I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see ... LYKKE LI I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ... ASTRO Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you... BRUCE ROBINSON I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don... JUSTIN HAYWARD I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's ... HAILEY BALDWIN You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... HALSEY If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor. MATT BOMER There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can&... JACK REYNOR Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you'... STACY LONDON There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit th... COREY TAYLOR I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interest... CAROLYN SEE No one wants to follow a pessimist... You can be skeptical, you can be realistic, but you can't ... BOB IGER My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.'... KATE MOSS I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert... PAIGE VANZANT The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And th... SID CAESAR Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageou... JANIS JOPLIN I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. YIGAL AZROUEL I like style. For Dior, I did more of a collaboration shoot, not just a single image - so there was ... EVA GREEN 'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-... CURT SCHILLING Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery. CINDY CRAWFORD It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some... BRIAN TEE
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