“Style is not only the man himself, as Buffon guessed; it is the man himself plus what he has gathered from Nature and transmitted in his crucible of genius.”

Style treated as character refined by outdoor gathering · Essay, The Personal Note

• Genius
• Nature
• Style

“The side-light of out-door nature is absolutely necessary to the historian, the poet, and the novelist, and he who neglects it fails in one of the prime requirements of the best art.”

Weather and landscape treated as a duty of literary art · Essay, Out-Door Influences in Literature

• Art
• Literature
• Nature

“Style is the artist's breath of life, which, with divine power, he blows into his clay and makes it a living soul in his own image.”

Form as animation rather than ornament · Essay, The Personal Note

• Art
• Creation
• Style