Quotes About Style

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different - create a new style subculture for my generation - and that is very ambitious.

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

The style depends on the subject.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

It's like somehow my favorite filmmakers, you know, bounce between genres. Like if you look at a career of somebody like Soderbergh or Danny Boyle or the Coen's. I mean, it goes - there's no real through line other than just their style, but the type of genre or the type of subject matter seems to go all over.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

My jiu-jitsu style is not a beautiful style. I have very simple submissions. It works, but it's not like Demian Maia or Nick Diaz's very exciting style.

My first coach was my brother Ken. He taught me submission wrestling, the catch-as-catch-can style that he was famous for. Then I trained in Japan with Funaki and Suzuki. Then I learned jiu-jitsu and sambo with Oleg Taktarov and Gokor Chivichyan.

I really subscribe to the 'look good, feel good' mantra in terms of playing, in terms of getting out there.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

Jackie O was so capable in so many ways. Hillary tried to redefine the role when she got into public policy, and Michelle Obama is able to move smoothly between form and function, style and substance.

Obviously everybody can't go to the convention, but if you're staying away from the convention because you disagree with a style or some substance of Donald Trump, that's a mistake because we've got our country at stake.