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“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.”

Giving Writing Trying Reason Use Sound Style Perception Ordinary Sentences Objectives Reason Why Faithful Paragraph Transmit Being Faithful Synonym

Author:Martin Amis

“I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.”

Thinking Giving Individual Goal Situation Player Team Talent Style Concerned Setting Settings Deceiving Individual Style

Author:Ronaldinho

“The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.”

Giving Should Mind Wells Turns Reading Sports Style Wit Classic

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.”

Giving Mean Form Creativity Style Determine Limitation

Author:Georges Braque

“I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.”

Giving Looks Ideas Imagination Sleep Brain Style Ought Colour New Ideas Bedroom Simplification

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and his subject that inveigles the untutored beholder.”

Giving Emotion Subjects Style Inspire Praise Critics Painter Landscape Impulse Beholder

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”

Giving Night Wish Style Familiar Volume Elegant Day And Night Coarse Ostentatious

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.”

Giving Kind Creative Style Genius Taste Notes Folly Faculty Sublime Giving Back

Author:Bill Vaughan