“When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.” MenWellsSaidStudyStyleDrawsMethodPityPursuePainterVenice Author:Giorgio Vasari
“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.” FirstsHardWould BePainReadingEffectsStyleSeriousHard WorkReturnCriticismMethodProofTemplesExaminationHeadacheStaminaPiercingsSyphilisMigraineClose Reading Author:Louis Aragon
“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.” IfsNeedsWellsDoeEndsFactsStoriesViewsMoralWiseStyleDeserveMethodIllSeekingHistorianTruthfulMaximsNarration Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920
“What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.” ArtIdeasStuffInterestStylePaintingMethodVariousCombinationAbstractMixingMatchingFigurative Art Author:Ed Askew
“My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.” SoulChallengesStyleMethodCookingTechniqueTraditionalCooksDishes Author:Aaron Sanchez
“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.” ThinkingWayWantGivingTryingUsedStuffStyleProjectsMethodTrackHip HopRapStorytellingTraditionalHipsHopsVocal Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.” WayStoriesStyleMethodSensibilityExtensions Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.” FilmBrainStyleParticularCircumstancesMethodTechniqueBelly Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.” IfsWorldShouldStillsFallFictionStyleMoralityMethodVictimCriticsInsightSuspectsImperfectFavourAssuredMistrustScribes Author:Will Self
“I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.” IfsWellsRealCertainLeftEffectsStyleMastersStandardsMethodJournalismOpponentsMotiveIsolatedLowestNormVulgarAccustomedNoisyMoronAnalystsPseudoReal Ones Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.” WorldWayGivingWellsMadeIdeasFormEffectsStylePossibilityMountainProjectsHighestConceptsMethodListsClimbsHorizonConcreteSolitarySoloExpandingOxygenPyramidsMountaineeringAscentSuperbAlpine Author:Walter Bonatti
“I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.” YearsChildrenBookLawCoursesRecordsStyleTaughtMiracleMethodBlindTalesGrandmotherDucksGrandfatherConsideringSenatorsMy GrandmotherRemarksMy GrandfatherGoreUnnaturalIdahoConstitutional LawKangaroos Author:Gore Vidal
“I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.... And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveAmericaI BelieveNationsShareStylePolicyRevolutionTypeSolutionsMethodDollarsFingersRefuseViolentPeacefulDirtyThroatForeign PolicyBloodyAmerican Foreign PolicyUs Foreign Policy Author:Michael Parenti
“Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)” ChanceStyleFieldsMaterialsBandMountainMethodMusicalProductionsStudiosBrandsPerformingIndifferenceEncountersCockyStrawberriesJugsIneptitudeChance Encounters Author:Glenn Gould