Dreams Quote by Marcel Proust

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during…

— Pablo Picasso

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

— Joshua Reynolds

[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of…

— Susan Sontag

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

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

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

— James Ellis

What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be…

— Octavio Paz

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does…

— Remy de Gourmont

“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern sense; these…

— Arnold Hauser

The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore