Quotes About Elegance

Classical ballet will never die.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

The joy of dressing is an art.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

The art of art... is simplicity.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

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

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.