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 the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. Henry Thoreau.

Art is all about craftsman- ship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters. Federico Fellini.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style. Robert Louis Stevenson. Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. Andre Maurois. The style IS the man himself. George- Louis Leclerc de Buffon.

Style is the perfection of a point of view. Richard Eberhart. You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being. Katherine Anne Porter. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. Matthew Arnold.