Art Quote by Cecil Taylor

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic…

— Oscar Wilde

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

— Tink

It's one thing to be saying what you're saying in music because it's art coupled with a lot of different things. Whether you're trying…

— B-Real

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than…

— Henry David Thoreau

Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed. You want…

— Judith Orloff

“Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately…

— George Bernard Shaw

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The…

— Evelyn Waugh

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I…

— Sergio Leone

“We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented—we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace,…

— Emil Cioran

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

— Giorgio Armani

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of…

— H. L. Mencken

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he…

— Raymond Carver