Michael Bastian Quotes

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

Modesty is the highest elegance

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I believe in art that conceals art.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

True refinement seeks simplicity.