Iris Apfel Quotes

I really don't need luxury.

Less is a bore.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Less is only more where more is no good.

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

If you only use rich and luxurious ingredients, you end up with excess.

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance.

Less is more only when more is too much.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

Now that I have the opportunities to do a lot, I want to do less.

I do think that it's always okay to show too little. People will still be interested. So why show too much?

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.