“I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.” PeopleThinkingSaidArtistStylePaintLandscapeBullshitUrbanRebelliousCornwall Author:Danny Fox
“Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.” LittlesBookWould BeFilmStyleMovementDetailsCommunicateParisSensationsGesturesScreenplaysBlueprints Author:Paul Auster
“I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.” ThinkingTryingKindPiecesInfluenceStyleGreatnessInspired Author:Paul Weller
“I'm always the one on the carpet that will be wearing something that nobody else will pick from the collection. I feel like I have some style soul sisters out there, like Diane Kruger and Zoe Saldana, they feel very much kindred spirits when it comes to style.” FeelsSoulSpiritStylePicksCollectionsCarpetKindredKindred Spirit Author:Jaime King
“I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did.” IfsHardBigsHappensStuffStylePeriodsDrugGoing OutPotheads Author:Clive James
“Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.” PeopleThinkingWaySometimesStyleMainstream Author:Neige
“I'm like, "Well, damn, that means that I have to carry a flag." I don't have the freedom to just do anything, because I have the political weight of having this last name and my heritage. It's not like I've transcended, Will Smith-style. It takes a lot to pull that off, to cross over, and transcend.” WellsMeanLastsPoliticalNamesStyleCrossesWeightDamnHeritageFlags Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was.” ArtUseFilmEasySoundNaturalChanceSimpleStyleShotsEuropeGood ThingsStudiosBudgetsEquipmentSimple Style Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Even though I really admire what Beyonce does, and she's probably got one of the best live shows in the world - honestly! - that's so not my style.” WorldDoeShowsStyleHonestlyAdmireBeyonce Author:Grimes
“I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.” ThinkingLooksMadeStyleLike YouBenefitsMade ItFringe Author:Julian Schnabel
“I just did what I did in my era, basically because of my admiration for the guys who came before me. That's how I've always looked at it. I never thought of boxing like, I'm going to be the greatest fighter ever and make a lot of money. Instead, I thought I was going to win because I learned from the best. I carefully studied the videotapes of all the fighters from the past, dissected their styles, and entered the ring with their spirit.” PastSpiritGuyWinningStyleRingsFighterErasBoxingAdmirationLots Of Money Author:Mike Tyson
“The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.” PeopleMindCertainSoundSituationStyleInspireMusicianSticks Author:Birdy
“speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.” KnowsFirstsWellsLooksWantedGroupsStyleMovedMapsVocalChoreographyCadillacs Author:Cholly Atkins
“Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.” WritingCharacterFormCertainValuesLiteratureProcessGreaterStyleInformationExampleProductsDependsImportanceAssumingTensionDependenceCagesGraphicGreat ValueSurrealist Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.” ThinkingWayWritingImportantTogetherMovingReadingStylePoetBritishPoundsPriestsAssuranceModernismAnthologyPhilipMoving AwayEliotHartCranes Author:Billy Collins
“Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.” ArtReasonFormWaterFictionIssuesStylePaintingElementsStrategyStructureMemoirCraftsNonfictionCompositionFormalPreciseCritiqueChronology Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style experimentations tethered to literary movements (formalism, deconstruction, modernism, and postmodernism), and the basic principal of breaking every rule I ever learned from a patriarchal writing tradition that never included my body or experience, and thus has nothing to offer me in terms of representation.” WritingBodyFormChoicesTermStyleMovementOffersTraditionCombinationPrincipalRepresentationFormalModernismExperimentationLinguisticsPostmodernismDeconstructionSemiotics Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.” FeelsTryingWellsHardTogetherStyleMomMy MomSophisticatedIconsEffortlessStyle IconsTrying Too Hard Author:Bella Heathcote
“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 live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.” HomeWould BeHousePayStylePaidSellsCaughtWorriedCaliforniaLos AngelesCrashMortgagePaid Off Author:Eric Idle
“You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.” IfsThinkingMenWayDoeSometimesPhilosophyAnimalStyleEgo Author:Zack Snyder
“As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.” WritingKidsStyleDevelopingCopiesPacingWriting StyleOld Movie Author:Kola Boof
“I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.” WritingFilmReadingStyleIntegrity1930sWalkersEthosPlath Author:Kola Boof
“There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.” SelfMeditationStyleHigherTwentiesInsightGlimpseHigher SelfTapping Author:India.Arie
“Anyway, in my performance style, I'm a singer-songwriter. People can call it neo-soul or R&B or whatever. But at the core, when you see me live, I'm a singer-songwriter.” PeopleSoulStylePerformancesSingersCoreSongwritersSinger Songwriters Author:India.Arie
“We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.” PeoplePlayAbleCertainStyleBandEtcSensibilityGrungeStoners Author:Bent Saether
“What you're constantly seeking isn't a style, but a transparency between your soul and the words. And your soul is ever in flux, so therefore you have to constantly find new forms of words that might be able to register these changes in the soul.” SoulMightAbleFormStyleSeekingYour SoulTransparencyRegisterFlux Author:Richard Flanagan
“Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].” FashionStyleClothesRelated Author:David Bowie
“Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.” WayWantLooksMeanCertainChoicesHouseWishStyleCivilizationAspectBotherChairsChoices You MakeWhy Bother Author:David Bowie
“There's something about the style of living in the country that they feel, "This is what represents me." So style is about the philosophy of how we create our civilization.” FeelsCountryPhilosophyStyleCivilizationLiving In The Country Author:David Bowie
“The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.” NeedsWritingIndividualVoiceFictionAudienceStyleInsightProfessionNewspapersJournalistNovelistsEditorsArticlesApprovalPublishersFiction WritingWriting StyleScorned Author:Jon Weisman
“Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.” ChoicesWishStyleCivilizationAspectChoices You Make Author:David Bowie
“Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.” ArtBookHardSeemsStyleFiguresPressesThemeWorks Of ArtCorresponding Author:Elliott Colla
“Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative, it's my kind of storytelling. It's not style; it's just there.” IfsKindMadeShowsStyleTraumaStorytellingNarrativePornography Author:Lav Diaz
“I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.” KnowsWritingChildrenSchoolClassCreativeWeekTeachingStyleHavensTaughtSummerAdultsEightCreative WritingWorkshopsElementary SchoolOlder Adults Author:Mary J. Miller
“"There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.” IfsWritingWantedRememberOrderReadingWonderStylePaperSmartCriticalAnalysisShockBrutalPeersPapersInabilityInitialsRefusalUnclearConvoluted Author:Mary J. Miller
“Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.” FeelsStuffStyleExcitedRetro Author:Panda Bear
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“I used to be concerned about style, worried about my work looking like a bad copy of someone who's better than me. So my embracing of the research and finding a way to replicate something consciously rather than replicate something unconsciously seemed like a way to go to distinguish what I do.” WayUsedStyleFindingsResearchConcernedUsed To BeWorriedCopiesReplicate Author:Robert Sikoryak
“I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has certainly influenced my style.” NamesStyleBandMetalsFactoriesCyberMetal Band Author:Paul Wardingham
“I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style, other than certain descriptive tendencies, an interest in the sound of language. Maybe an immersion in place.” ThinkingBookCertainLanguageSoundVoiceInterestStyleTendenciesSignaturesImmersion Author:Paul Lisicky
“I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.” WritingSongPrinciplesStyleStructureCoreStuckGenreClassicSongwriting Author:Wendy Starland
“There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.” PeopleWayStyleExampleStrangeHendrixKeith Author:Bryce Dessner
“I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!” FirstsRememberSeeingStyleFirst TimeJeansComing BackFittingWardrobe Author:Elle Fanning
“My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.” MayDoeKidsNamesStrongFiveWifeMiddleStyleMoonBandMusicianDaughterDirectUnionsSurpriseMy DaughterBanjos Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“I went from being an underpaid ad man to quite a successful photographer in a very short time. Success breeds confidence and as soon as I got properly confident, I developed my own style. After that I never looked back.” MenMy OwnSuccessfulStylePhotographerAdsShort TimeMy Own StyleUnderpaid Author:Derek Ridgers
“When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.” PeopleEyeKnownStyleCamerasStartingAugustHelenStraight Up Author:Derek Ridgers