Quotes About Elegance

Goethe's poems are like tiny paintings in beautiful frames.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again.

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

I love Catherine Maladrino, Angela Dean and Nicole Miller. Catherine Maladrino designs that beautiful, high-class red carpet stuff. Nicole Miller makes beautiful dresses you can wear every day. And when you just want to go and shut it down, you turn to Angela Dean.

When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, 'Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.' In part, because it's a really elegant product. It's very fast.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

I love to see a woman in high-heeled shoes. There's something about the curve of the feet up the leg to the butt that's really, really wonderful, and the right pair of shoes can give you the right silhouette.

The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.

DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.

I love sensual materials like silk or cashmere.

If I'm going to mix gold and silver, I make my accessories all match.

When dressing a table take out your old pieces of silver, hand-me-down linens and old candelabras, it will make your meal that much more special.

My favorite colors are black, white and silver.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.

Alfred Eisenstaedt