“Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style.”

— George Orwell, book Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language (1946)

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English author and journalist 1903–1950

J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) American writer

The Problem of Style, Fawcett, New York 1966
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“I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.”

El Greco (1541–1614) Greek painter, sculptor and architect

Quote from notes of El Greco, in one of his commentaries; as cited by Fernando Marías and Agustín Bustamante García in Las Ideas Artísticas de el Greco (Cátedra, 1981), p. 80; taken from Wikipedia/El Greco: in 'Technique and Style' Original: una es la imitación de los colores https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Colores que yo tengo por la mayor dificultad https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dificultad

“We [The Futurists] stand for a use of colour free from the imitation of objects and things as coloured objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of colour is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.”

Carlo Carrà (1881–1966) Italian painter

Carlo Carrà's art statement on Futurism in 1913, as quoted in Abstract Art Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 26
1910's

“People don't want to listen to an imitation. If they want to listen to my style, they will go and buy my records.”

Begum Akhtar (1914–1974) Indian musician

In Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html, Quote

“[I] purposely avoided the styles of Raphael and Michaelangelo because I was ambitious of higher distinction than that of a clever imitator.”

Titian (1488–1576) Italian painter

Titian's remark to Francesco Vargas, the Spanish envoy, c. 1545; in Vicus, De studiorum ratione, u. s. p. 109; as quoted by J.A.Y. Crowe & G.B. Cavalcaselle in Titian his life and times - With some account..., publisher John Murray, London, 1877, p. 115
1541-1576

“Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”

Booth Tarkington book The Magnificent Ambersons

Source: The Magnificent Ambersons

“Those Englishmen who are taunted with following the methods of the French Impressionists, sneered at for imitating a foreign style, are in reality but practising their own, for the French artists simply developed a style which was British in its conception.”

Wynford Dewhurst (1864–1941) British artist

Wynford Dewhurst 1904, quoted in: Douglas Cooper (1954) The Courtauld Collection: A Catalogue and Introduction. p. 44.

“You don’t want to be imitating his [Miyazaki] style. You’ve got to create something different, something that he hasn’t done.”

Makoto Shinkai (1973) Japanese anime director and former graphic designer

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“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.”

Susannah Constantine (1962) British fashion designer and journalist

As quoted in "Mistresses of the makeover" by Cathrin Schaer in New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=182&objectid=10493332&pnum=2 (25 February 2008)

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