Elegance Quotes

“The elegance of the moon teaches us to be elegant and kind.”

“Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!”

“Theory is relevant to you because it shows you a new, simpler, and more elegant side of computers, which we normally consider to be complicated machines. The best computer designs and applications are conceived with elegance in mind. A theoretical course can heighten your aesthetic sense and help you build more beautiful systems.”

“For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209)”

“Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.”

“Elegance is timeless”

“If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!”

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

“There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.”