Quotes on Elegance

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

It is not easy to stop thinking ill of others.Usually one must enter into a friendship with a person who has accomplished that great feat himself.Then something might start to rub off on you of that true elegance.

Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.

In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be called a Minimalist than something else.

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

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates. Indeed, the beauty and elegance of the physical laws themselves are only apparent when expressed in the appropriate mathematical framework.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.