Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet” — Noel Hynd Copy Share Image
“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality. — Maria Young Dougall Copy Share Image
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful… — Lilly Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become. — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
The people experiencing the most pain tend to be the ones who are always trying to make others smile. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being… — Pierre Cardin Copy Share Image
Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie… — Joyce Stranger Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord changes. It's about giving everything I make a… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he… — Stefano Pilati Copy Share Image
It’s a most natural way for me. I can tell people I can run in a saree and I can do five… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange , Laplace , and Gauss , who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note… — W.W. Rouse Ball Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst Copy Share Image
The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart. — Oscar de la Renta Copy Share Image