Robert Benton Style Quotations

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

Style lasts forever and taste doesn't.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.