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Neither action nor style could have accomplished the result alone.Both were needed.
I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.
I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable.
Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed 'with his eye on the object', Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes 'with his eye onthe object', whether the object be moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.
Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics thanthese wordsnoble, thegrand style Ithink it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
When he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.
The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning.It'snothingofthekind.Thegame isabout glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.
Glory is to God what style is to an artist To behold God's glory, to sense his style, is the closest you can get this side of Paradise, just as to read King Lear is the closest you can get to Shakespeare. 165
There was a lad was born in Kyle, But what na day o' what na style. I doubt it's hardly worth the while To be sae nice wi' Robin.
Le style, comme la popeline, dissimule trop souvent de l'ecze ma. Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
Any old iron, any old iron, Anyany old old iron? You look neat Talk about a treat, You look dapper from your napper to your feet. Dressed in style, brand new tile, And your father's old green tie on, But I wouldn't give you tuppence for your old watch chain; Old iron, old iron?
I have called this stylethe Mandarin style It isthe style of those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.
A new generation does not appear every 30 years. It appears when writers of the same age join in a common revolt against the fathers and when, in the process of adopting a new lifestyle, they find theirownmodels and spokesmen.
Yo persigo una forma que no encuentra mi estilo, boto n de pensamiento que busca ser la rosa; se anuncia con un beso que en mis labios se posa al abrazo imposible de laVenus de Milo. I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of theVenus de Milo.
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Latin. Langage naturel de l'homme. Ga" te l'e criture. Est seulement utile pour comprendre les inscriptions des fontaines publiques. Il faut se me fier des citations en Latin; elles cachent toujours quelque chose de leste. Latin. Man's natural language. Spoils your style.Useful only for reading the inscriptions on public fountains. Beware of quotations in Latin: theyalways conceal something improper.
We used to say that a passage of good style beganwith a fresh, usual word, and continued with fresh, usual words to the end; there was nothing more to it.
The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.
We musn't complaintoomuch of being comediansit's anhonourableprofession.Ifonly we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style.
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Our style should be as a skein of silk, to be carried and found by the right thread, not ravelled and perplexed; then all is a knot, a heap.
Salad is not a meal. It is a style.
He was God out there. He wanted it a certain way, that was the MGM style, and that's what you got.
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.
Whatever his private behavior, the man and his work existed in different realms. Mencken's defects were commonplace; his virtues were not. So wonderfully uninhibited was his style that even a single sentence in a routine article proclaimed its begetter.
Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.
If 'compression is the first grace of style,' you have it.
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, and I, myself, happened to bethe creator intheyear1902 Jazz music isa style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in jazz, if one has the knowledge.
Styleandstructurearetheessence ofa book; great ideas are hogwash.
Style is beginning something in the manner which will make it necessary for things that happen later to happen.
Eins ist not.Seinem Charakter 'Stil geben'. One thing is needful.To'give style'to one's character. «
Not their style to say no.But when you listenyou don't hear yes.
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism.
Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout e tonne et ravi, car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme. When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
God is really onlyanother artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
The grand manner consists of four elements: subject or theme, concept, structure, and style. The first requirement, fundamental to all the others, is that the subject and the narrative be grandiose, such as battles, heroic actions, and religious themes.
Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.
Prendre conscience, disait ailleurs mon pe' re, c'est d'abord acque rir un style. To become conscious, as my father said, one must first acquire a style.
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
As for style of writingif one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
[Michelangelo] Buonarotti commended it [Titian's painting] highly, saying that his colouring and his style pleased him very much but that it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well from the beginning.
'He's supposed to have a particularly high-class style: ''Feather footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole''would that be it?' 'Yes,'said the Managing Editor.'That must be good style.'
Napoleon did not manoeuvre at all. He just moved forward inthe old style, in columns, and was drivenoff in the old style.
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