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“I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Style Call Me Impressionists

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't look like the people I was performing to. Not in a condescending way, but just that it would be weird if I was wearing exactly what someone in the crowd was wearing.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Looks Would Be Style Couple Crowds Performing Gigs Realised Condescending

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.”

Mind Firsts Long Seems Style Footsteps

Author:Maurice de Vlaminck

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.”

Ifs Firsts Might Darkness Doors Style Keys Speech Constitution Saint Tyranny Granted Amendments Sunlight First Amendment Saint Paul

Book:Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”

Years Firsts Made Would Be Felt Style Design Building First Time Decades Architecture Accepted Orthodoxy Revolt Stirring Postmodernism Motifs

Author:Martin Filler

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“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.”

Firsts Hard Would Be Pain Reading Effects Style Serious Hard Work Return Criticism Method Proof Temples Examination Headache Stamina Piercings Syphilis Migraine Close Reading

Author:Louis Aragon

“No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.”

Firsts May Art Certain Culture Simple Style Complexity Mature Glances Symmetry

Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.”

Should Firsts Style Personality Ego

Author:Dewey Redman

“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”

Source: Essays and Reviews

“I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.”

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.”

Firsts Parent Growing Up Growing Fashion Style Importance Impression Atlanta First Impression

Author:Cam Newton

“Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.”

Ifs Writing Mind Firsts Character Light Style Ought Faithful Copies

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.”

Writing Firsts Persons Two Style Understood Worthy Two Things Suspects Converses Not Worthy

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.'”

People World Way Feels Firsts Felt Style Mets Promoting Underdog

Author:Jonah Hill

“Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless”

World Firsts Style Concern Invention Capitalist Commerce Restless Trademarks

Author:Art Spiegelman

“When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.”

Thinking Want Firsts Style Creating Albums Productions What You Want

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.”

Trying Firsts Helping Style Vices Symbols Substance Things To Do Requirements Vice Versa

Author:Wally Olins

“It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.”

Firsts Violence Style Revolution Wall Female Shopping Berlin Wall

Author:Gloria Steinem

“The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.”

Firsts Art Two Real Faces Artist Fighting Left Wish Enemy Pieces Style Arms Blow Obvious Opponents Boxing Fists Rapids Real Artists

Author:Gilbert Highet

“I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.”

Firsts Problem Style Decided Tails Heads Or Tails

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so thathe insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence. Addison's style, like a light wine, pleases everybody from the first. Johnson's, like a liquor of more body, seems too strong at first, but, by degrees, is highly relished.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolary correspondence; and conversations with many eminent persons ...

“Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?”

Firsts Art Artist Realizing Style Tendencies Mature Aesthetic Great Art Criteria Aesthetics Great Artist Immaturity Juvenile

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.”

Firsts Style Composition Rhetoric

Book:Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution

“When I made my first film, Basquiat, I think one of the criticisms was that the way I work is episodic. Later, as people started to look at the movies, they started to realize that maybe that's my style. If I could do it better or another way, I guess I would.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Made Film Realizing Style Criticism If I Could Another Way Basquiat

Author:Julian Schnabel

“For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.”

Firsts Whole Lasts Actors Style Subconscious

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.”

“The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.”

Firsts Enough Culture Strong Sound Seeing Style Listening First Time Crosses Connections Independent Musical Great Men Melody Very Strong Vocal Hungarians Strong Connection Irish Music

Author:Tom Waits

“One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.”

Knows World Firsts Made Character Kids Age Culture Fashion Style Necks Sweat Pants Turtles Cultures Of The World

Author:Peter Sohn

“Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Wells Looks Kind Important Shows Together Courses Perfect Style Tvs Elements Performances What If Performers Tv Shows Slick Perfect Marriage

Author:Edgar Wright

“The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.”

Want Firsts Kind I Can Remember Guy Rocks Style Band Opposites Police Pops Traditional Rhythm Mold Drummer Reggae Rock Bands Drumming Most Inspiring Pop Bands

Author:Panda Bear

“The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.”

Thinking Firsts Rocks Talent Style Fame Management Halls Rock And Roll Supportive Hall Of Fame Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Ian Anderson

“I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.”

Years Firsts Done Play Facts Dream Felt Roles Style Painting Enormous Landscape Insecure Omen Replica

Author:April Gornik

“I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Made Shows Might Style Copies Awkwardness

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons.”

Firsts Black Style Jazz Meetings Horizon Capability Sabbath Guitarist Black Sabbath

Author:Geezer Butler

“It's inevitable that everyone's first drawing they draw is much like their fingerprint. It's inescapable that one has an identifiable style. It's not a major issue with me, but I never wanted to have a distinctive signature style so much.”

Firsts Wanted Issues Style Majors Draws Drawing Inevitable Signatures Distinctive Fingerprints

Author:Raymond Pettibon

“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."”

Want Firsts Children Made Would Be Together Hours Destiny Saws Influence Rocks Style Scene Band Findings Okay Radio Grades Fifth Houston Rock Bands Freestyle Fifth Grade

Author:Lizzo

“My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.”

Way Writing Firsts Book Stuff Style Direct Critics Boxing Essays Muhammad Writing Style

Author:Ishmael Reed

“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.”

Knows Firsts Wells Looks Wanted Groups Style Moved Maps Vocal Choreography Cadillacs

Author:Cholly Atkins

“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!”

Firsts Remember Seeing Style First Time Jeans Coming Back Fitting Wardrobe

Author:Elle Fanning

“But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.”

Firsts Creativity Creative Style Myth Revision Imposition

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.”

People Firsts Consciousness Modern Style Identity First Time Instruments Southern Explosions Banjos

Author:Bela Fleck

“We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation.”

People Firsts Two Different Wanted Film Environment Achieve Style Tables Multiple Animation Different Styles Kung Fu Pandas New Environment Kung Fu Panda

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing with the economy. Second, there must be a very deep reconsideration of our way of life. We cannot simply adopt American-style consumer culture. To Islamize that is to de-Islamize Islam.Thirdly, it is important for us to understand the economy and the environment are common challenges for everyone. This is where the singularity of Islamic principles needs to join the universal values that we share with others.”

“I think Mixed Martial Arts is going to be a huge thing coming up in pro wrestling, and I like to think of myself as one of the first guys to try and implement that into my style.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Art Guy Style Huge Art Is Martial Arts Wrestling Pro Wrestling Mixed Martial Arts

Author:CM Punk

“First and foremost, with everybody we wanted to see if they can pull off the songs, play them correctly, and that they it felt right musically. That's something Mike [Mangini] did, it felt like the band. He really gets the style and delivers in a powerful metal way.”

Ifs Way Firsts Play Wanted Song Felt Powerful Style Band Metals Mike

Author:John Petrucci

“There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.”

Way Writing Firsts Mother Careers Style Elements Instinct Critics Visuals Editing

Author:Lena Dunham

“My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in. By reading you hone your internal ear for style. Second, write. Everything comes down to it; unless you write, you are not a writer. Third, submit your work. But - stop chasing every seductive new market out there, and stop trying to write for the tastes of specific established professional markets and editors. That way lies mediocrity and eventual dissolution of your true voice, no matter how embryonic or pronounced it may be now.”

Way Writing Trying Firsts May Matter Lying Reading Voice Advice Style Taste Ears Thirds Genre Internals Editors Mediocrity Submit Chasing Seductive Stop Trying Dissolution Aspiring Writers

Author:Vera Nazarian

“In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.”

Knows Way Firsts Style Confused Shocked Berlin Homage Dazed

Author:Nan Goldin