Quotes About Elegance

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons.

Life is very charming, I must say.

Grace. Her name whispered through Jack's mind like the silken stroke of a hand. He'd never seen her look as pretty as she did tonight, the vibrant bronze hue of her gown lending her skin a creamy luminosity, her hair gleaming a rich, fiery red that reminded him of living flame. And passion. He wondered if that same intense fire lay hidden inside her, and he relished the idea of finding out.

Claire was de rigeuer even in disgrace.

I yearn for flowers that bend with the wind and rain.

A pattern of black diamond scales ran along her back and real black diamonds hung from her ears, outlined in white gold. An aura of menace seemed to surround her.

it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is something wonderfully comfortable about having a lady's legs under one's table, Aubrey.

Calligraphy," said Plato, "is the physical manifestation of an architecture of the soul." That being so, mine must be a turf-and-wattle kind of soul, since my handwriting would be disowned by a backward cat; whereas yours, particularly on your charts, has a most elegant flow and clarity, the outward form of a soul that might have conceived the Parthenon.

There she lays,' he cried. 'Oh there she lays! Ain't she the loveliest thing you ever saw?' 'She is, too,' said Stephen, for even to his profound ignorance she stood out among the common workaday vessels like a thoroughbred in a troop of cart-horses.

The Captain Has An Uncommon Genteel Figgar

Smiling slyly, pleased with herself, Lady Dant shut the wardrobe door, but she could not shut out from the mind of Mrs Harris what she had seen there: beauty, perfection, the ultimate in adornment that a woman could desire. Mrs Harris was no less a woman than Lady Dant, or any other. She wanted, she wanted, she wanted a dress from what must be surely the most expensive shop in the world, that of Mr Dior in Paris.

GOOD DESIGN IS SIMPLE. You hear this from math to painting. In math it means that a shorter proof tends to be a better one. Where axioms are concerned, especially, less is more. It means much the same thing in programming. For architects and designers, it means that beauty should depend on a few carefully chosen structural elements rather than a profusion of superficial ornament.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

The need to complicate something whose very beauty lay in simplicity and passion.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.

Volvía a escuchar esa despedida maricona diciéndole: Fue bonito conocerte. Pero qué descaro del güevón darle la cortada con tanta finura.

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.