Quotes About Elegance

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Rooms should be timeless.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.