Alice Temperley Quotes

I adore pretty things & witty words.

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

Art is all in the details.

Beauty is everything.

Ugliness has been allowed too long. It is time to act.

Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Life and art are not two different things.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Art is the child of Nature.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.