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“The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.”

Style Design Universal Productions Testament New Testament

Book:Church History

Source: Church History

“One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.”

Enemy Style Stupid Critics Crucifixion

Author:Alexander Theroux

“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.”

Men Wells Said Study Style Draws Method Pity Pursue Painter Venice

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.”

People Faces Artist Voice Careers Style Seeking Accomplish Bored Boredom Frustration Frustrated Collectors

Book:Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

Source: Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

“It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.”

People Art Matter Quality Subjects Style Emotional No Matter What Impact Sells

Author:Jack White

“It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.”

Writing Mean Book Voice Style Fine Personality Marketing Contradiction Leap Aggressive Scream Writing Style

Author:David Bergen

“People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.”

People Has Beens Play Style Type Jazz Caught Smooth Caught Up Defining Acid Smooth Jazz

Author:Roy Ayers

“It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in myths and folk art. This may be. My interest in the dynamics of Jugend style probably also comes into it.”

May Art Said Eye Interest Lines Style Folks Myth Staring Features Mask Dynamics Nordic Folk Art

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.”

Care Achieve Style Development Degrees Take Care Instruction Notable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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

“West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.”

Important Stories Sides Style New York Dancing West Gang West Side West Side Story

Author:Vincente Minnelli

“To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.”

Ifs Book Matter Moving Artist Choices Middle Subjects Style Calling Function Blue Sentences Commit Subject Matter One Direction

Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.”

Art Reality Purpose Existence Style Offers Models Art Is Function Pace Desirable

Author:Peter Schmidt

“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

“Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.”

Looks May Art Inspiration Style Art Inspiration

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Quality is always in style.”

Quality Style

Author:Robert Genn

“Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.”

Style Fine Decent Handicaps

Author:Robert Genn

“Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.”

Style

Author:Robert Genn

“Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.”

Writing Today Artist Results Style Example Statements Vocabulary Spectacular Obscurity Writing Style Arcane

Author:Robert Genn

“When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.”

Want Different Suffering Style Musician Songwriting

Author:Noel Gallagher

“After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.”

Artist Style Havens Changed Late Including Abstract Realistic Andrew Impressionists I Haven't Changed

Author:Robert Bateman

“The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.”

Looks Stage Style Primitive Scenery

Author:E. J. Hughes

“Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.”

Ifs Asks Perfect Car Style Guitar Focused Ask Me Bells Amplifiers

Author:Buddy Guy

“Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.”

Style Color Bird Temper Squirrels Lizards

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.”

Should Ideas Written Style Communication Objectives Introducing Simplest Project Management

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.”

Black Fashion Style Design Dresses Strokes Pencils

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.”

Important Fashion Style Makers Always Believe

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“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

“For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.”

Forever Fashion Style Smoking Indispensable Comes And Goes Garments

Author:Yves Saint Laurent

“A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.”

Writing Mind Whole Stories Powerful Teach Style Ten Pages Notion Dry Description Chapters Impress Vivid Textbooks Manuals Narration

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

“The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.”

Knows Feels Should Strong Behinds Style Seven Concentration Strokes Rating Rowing Announcing

Author:Phillip Thomas

“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

“I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.”

Ifs Want Would Be Style Limits Neglect Rock N Roll

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful.”

Art Beautiful Fighting Style Mma

Author:Bobby Green