Style Quotes - Page 67

Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you are doing.

Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.

The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny', and it is my contention that in actuality it is these musicians who are producing that which in future years perceptive critics will deem 'corny'.

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.

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