“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.” FiveStyleSeriousMassHundredRemainsStoresSignificantVideoEnterpriseTrendsPotatoesCablesCouchesPopcornAvailabilityLife StyleSerious Life Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. And that's why, when I say I'm a blues man, that's a very serious vocation - to muster the courage to find your own unique voice, to forge your distinctive style in the world, to leave your imprint in the sands of time in such a way that your singularity, your individuality, remains something that people have to come to terms with.” PeopleMenWorldWayVoiceTermStyleSeriousMusic IsUniqueRemainsIndividualityWho I AmSandVocationDistinctiveSingularityMusterUnique VoicesSands Of Time Author:Cornel West
“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.” LooksAsksModernFashionStyleBuildingCivilizationRemainsStructureHistoricalContemporaryCopiesAbsurdityVulgarityAnachronism Author:Louis Sullivan
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” InspirationalFashionStyleRemainsFadesFashionableFashion DesignerFashion And StyleCoutureFashion StyleGreat FashionFashion InspirationalFashion ModelFrench FashionFashion InspirationFashion AccessoryFashion And Beauty Author:Coco Chanel
“There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.” WayMayLongAmericaIndividualFreedomLibertyHellForeverDemocracyStyleHorrorRemainsVoidExpandingUtopiaAmerican LifeOdyssey Author:Norman Mailer
“I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.” Has BeensNumbersFashionStylePaintingInvolvedRemainsWaveSnobSpeculatorsConnoisseur Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing that remains constant. And that is the tension of the experience, that electricity, that kind of feeling that is a lift sort of feeling. No matter where it happens, you know when that feeling comes upon you, and it makes you feel happy.” KnowsFeelsKindMayDifferentMatterFeelingsHappensOne ThingStyleRemainsConstantLiftsTensionElectricity Author:John Coltrane