Quotables on Style



“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
- Gore Vidal

“To ‘give style’ to one's character -- a great and rare art!”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.”
- Gloria Vanderbilt

“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”
- Plato

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
- Yves Saint Laurent

“In the final analysis, ‘style’ is art.”
- Susan Sontag, U.S. author, critic

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