Quotes and Sayings about Elegance
"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
- Johnny Ball
(Related: Elegance, Mathematics, Want)
"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view."
- William Bartram
(Related: Progress, Elegance, Order)
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
- Cecil Beaton
(Related: Elegance)
"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment."
- Merry Browne
(Related: Honesty, Elegance, Needs)
"Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Beauty, Idea, Elegance, Nothing)
"I am from the planet of elegance."
- Ron Carter
(Related: Elegance)
"Elegance is refusal."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Elegance)
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Adolescence, Elegance, Future, Possession)
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Dress, Elegance)
"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Education, Work, Elegance, Hard work, Reality)
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Elegance, Mathematics)
"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
- Edsger Dijkstra
(Related: Success, Failure, Elegance, Luxury)
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Beauty, Wealth, Elegance, Magnificence)
"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."
- Abba Eban
(Related: Elegance, Flexibility, Will)
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Truth, Elegance)
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
- Robert Fitzgerald
(Related: Poetry, Elegance)
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
- Clifford Geertz
(Related: Beauty, Elegance, Historians, Intuition, Mathematicians, Talk, Thinking, Worth)
"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Elegance, Harmony, Taste)
"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Humor, Mother, Elegance)
"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance."
- Sylvia Kristel
(Related: Elegance, Innocence, Serenity, Trying, Vulnerability)
"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Elegance, Individualism, Italy, Taste)
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Elegance, Snobbery)
"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"
- Yves Saint Laurent
(Related: Elegance)
"The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me."
- Kate Mulgrew
(Related: Quality, Talent, Difference, Elegance, Literature, Word)
"I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function."
- Donald Norman
(Related: Life, Compromise, Elegance, Simplicity)
"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it."
- Claes Oldenburg
(Related: Death, Chicago, Elegance)
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
- Henri Poincare
(Related: Elegance, Feeling, Solution)
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
- Marcel Proust
(Related: Elegance)
"It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Family, Elegance, Old)
"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Virtue, Elegance)
"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
- Diana Vreeland
(Related: Elegance, Mind, Rest)
"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."
- Diana Vreeland
(Related: Being, Elegance, Nothing)