#elegance

What is elegance? Soap and water! ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#soap #water

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#elegance #must #never #snobbery

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? ↗

— Henri Poincare

#elegance #feeling #gives #indeed #solution

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#i #morally #only #pure #remain

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#forgetting #wearing

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity. ↗

— Henry Spencer

#brute-force #complexity #elegance #engineering #architecture

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#money #money

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement. ↗

— Abba Eban

#elegance #flexibility #glued #ground #his

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#elegance #glamour #grace #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #creativity #designer #elegance #immorality