Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable. The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style – all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
—Strunk & White, "The Elements of Style"
And thus an American textbook, typical required reading for 10th-grade English students, unknowingly extols some virtues of WabiSabi. —scummings
Somewhat related:
Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't do you any good to know a lot about bathtubs.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
—Bruce Lee
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