thoughts on style

Style is in no way a decoration as some people believe; it is not even a matter of technique; it is—as color is with painters— a quality of vision, the revelation of the particular universe which each of us sees, and which others do not see. The pleasure that an artist gives us is to make us know one universe more.

Marcel Proust

What, in fact, is 'style'?

It meant originally a writing implement...But already in Classical Latin the word stilus was extended to mean, first, a man’s '‘way of writing’, then, more generally, his ‘way of expressing himself’, in speech as well as in writing.

In modern English, ‘style’ has acquired further senses. As in French, it has been narrowed