Quotes About Elegance

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Art lies in concealing art.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

The Beautiful is always strange.

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.

People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.

Sit there and look pretty.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

like a glass of champagne?

and French-braided hair

dressed to kill Koyasan

I had seen the girl somewhere before. She was a slender girl in a glistening blue gown that exhibited a generous spread of front, back and arms that were worth showing. She had a mass of dark brown hair above an oval face of the color that pink ought to be. Her eyes were wide-set and of a gray shade that wasn't altogether unlike the shadows on polished silver that the poet had compared them to. The Girl With The Silver Eyes

She had large, wide-set green eyes, and long brown hair that curled slightly and turned to gold at the tips. She wore a long, straight blue dress that accentuated the slimness of her frame. She was perhaps an inch taller than Peter, and by the look of her she took baths.

More goals may not be necessary for you now—you need comfort with the ones you've already put in motion, and the confidence that you can execute elegantly on any new ones.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

And when the clothes are strewn, Don't be afraid of the room. Touch the fullness of her breast, Feel the love of her caress... She will be your living end. - Lady Grinning Soul