George Leigh Mallory Quotes

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

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Don't worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.

I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.

It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

In everything, love simplicity.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

The nude alone is well dressed

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.