If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir, a decorative litt?rateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.
Source: Quoted in International Herald Tribune, 5 Dec 81
-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26 1856-1950), Irish dramatist, critic; He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with drama of ideas.