Elegance Quotes

291 Elegance quotes by 211 unique authors

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly… — Alexander Theroux
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians… — Henri Poincare
The Saluki is a marvel of elegance. — Vita Sackville-West
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement. — Tom Piazza
I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a… — Pierre Cardin
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another? — Stephen Dunn
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no. — Aristotle
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;… — Samuel Johnson
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander… — James Joyce
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,… — Mary McCarthy
There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor… — Alfred Molina
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart. — Oscar de la Renta
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music… — Laz Alonso
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance. — Rod Stewart
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners... — Chogyam Trungpa
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,… — Camille Paglia
True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind. — Isabella Rossellini
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. — Frederick Sommer

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