Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
“A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.”
Robert Denning (1927–2005) American interior designer
Aileen Mehle, "Manhattan Grand Luxe — Richly Appointed Rooms For Collectors", Architectural Digest (September 1994), v. 51 #9, pp. 126-176.
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
“Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.”
Nathaniel Emmons (1745–1840) American clergy
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 481.
George Kubler (1912–1996) American art historian
George Kubler summarizing the view of Meyer Schapiro (with whom he disagrees), quoted by Alpers in Lang, Berel (ed.), The Concept of Style, 1987, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801494397
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
A Man's Style
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books
“In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.”
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) English-American novelist and essayist
"The Wit of George S. Kaufman and Dorothy Parker," p. 162
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Soros on Soros (1995)
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
