Style

Frank Auerbach

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style. (Frank Auerbach)


What is style... is it the way an artist executes a painting, the amount of color, line ....the quickness or deliberate marks...It is personal, authentic and not an imitation...
One definition I found on the Internet:
Style is:
a mode of expressing thought in language (a manner of expression characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation)


a manner or tone assumed in discourse, or


the custom or plan followed in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and typographic arrangement and display.


“I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. 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





Style is everything. (Susan Sontag)