"There is no single style.
"Those days are gone, though honestly I wonder if those days ever existed. Even historical styles were based on travels, cultures combining, practicality, needs. Maybe we were always meshing styles, and these new morphed visions aren't new at all!"
–– Leanne Ford (b. 1981), American interior designer
Source: Leanne Ford. The Slow Down. New York: Abrams, 2024; p. 137.
via: Sketchbook M 13, 2024, p. 8.
"The things you do badly are as much part of your style as the things you do well."
–– Martin Scorsese (b. 1942), American filmmaker
"I've heard people say that it takes 10,000 hours to master your style or your line or something, but I think it takes 10,000 hours to become boring and mediocre. The moment you master something is the moment you stop being creative."
–– Gareth Brookes, British artist
Source: Austin Kleon, Instagram Stories, January 2, 2025
via: Sketchbook N 14, 2024, 2025, p. 45.
"I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it."
–– Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989), American painter
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook L 2024, p. 29.
"Style is what you do with what's wrong with you."
–– Sharon Stone (b. 1958), American actress
Source: Austin Kleon, November 10, 2023
"I always think of style as something that's the difference between what you want something to look like, and what your hand and brain make it look like unintentionally. And there's quite a gap there, and there's some interesting stuff in that gap."
–– Daniel Clowes (b. 1961), American cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter
Source: Austin Kleon, January 15, 2020.
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2022, p. 27.
"Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself."
–– Oscar de la Renta (1932-2014), Dominican-born American fashion designer
via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook J 2020-2023, 2021, p. 24.
"For me, music and life are all about style."
–– Miles Davis (1926-1991), American musician, bandleader, and composer
"The energy of imagination, deliberation and invention – these are the ingredients of style and all who have it share one thing: originality."
– Diana Vreeland (1903-1989), French-American magazine editor and fashion journalist
via: Sketchbook 21, 2013, p. 88
"Style is eternal and yet it evolves all the time. It can be compared to a tree. Every spring, the same tree is there, but it is not the same as it was before."
–– Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and businesswoman
via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 147
