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Quotes About Elegance

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
~ Laz Alonso
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~ Jerry Hall
Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.
~ Gracie Gold
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
~ Gary Lucas
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
~ Sean O Faolain
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.
~ George Eliot
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
~ John Ruskin
The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.
~ Robyn
True joy of nature is when every drop of water shines like a pearl.
~ Anamika Mishra
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
~ Coco Chanel
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
~ John Herschel
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
~ John Burroughs
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
~ Johannes Kepler
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
~ Louis Nizer
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
~ Gordon Willis
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
~ Aristotle