Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style. Show all posts

against style

There is nothing worse for our trade than to be in style.

—Archibald MacLeish, from the poem "Invocation to the Social Muse"

style is

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist and the broad outlook of a group are visible.

—Meyer Schapiro, Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society (1994), p51