Elegance Quotes - Page 3

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.

Elegance is not about being noticed, its about being remembered.

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

Death is the only real elegance.

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

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

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Self-command is the main elegance.