Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified. — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“...elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid...” — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense. — Lord Chesterfield 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
For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“Elegance is the perfect disguise for our violent nature—a mask so convincing that we often fool ourselves the moment we don it.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst Copy Share Image
Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
