Kate Spade Quotes

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

To possess taste, one must have some soul.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.