Beauty Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional…

— Miuccia Prada

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I…

— Henri Matisse

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a…

— Kristin Chenoweth

Some things don't need to be cut back. They need to be cut off.

— Beth Moore

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

— Marcel Duchamp

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober…

— Paulo Coelho

Elegance is elimination.

— Cristobal Balenciaga

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

— John Ashbery

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

— Mason Cooley

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

— Barnett Newman

Elegance is eternal and I add my pinch of that ingredient to what I wear.

— Sonu Kakkar