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“The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.”

Action Beautiful Subjects Fashion Style Expression Waste Standards Innovation Come Up Accepted Range Aesthetic Offensive Norm Restless Selective

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.”

Style Concerned Perfection Innovation Sensations

Book:Yves Saint Laurent and Fashion Photography

Source: Yves Saint Laurent and Fashion Photography

“When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.”

Way Dream Reality Spirit Desire Creative Style Innovation Filled Lifetime New Ways Creative Spirit New Ways Of Doing Things

Author:Paul A. Kaufman

“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Ifs Past Social Emotion Break Environment Style Discipline Innovation Structure Endure Bored Assertive Social Structure New Environment

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

“In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.”

World Art Past Left Style Innovation Contemporary Aesthetic Imprisonment

Book:The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998

Source: The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998

“In order to realize the goal of creating a new starting line that anyone can instinctively understand we have come up with a design that differs greatly from any of today's controllers. We have also made bold innovations in play style as well.”

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Author:Satoru Iwata

“So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.”

Years Style Draws Innovation Sticks Boring Mess Cartoonist

Author:Pat Oliphant