Le Corbusier Quotes

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.

Style equals pretense.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with each other. What's scary is when you strip all the lies away to get at the essential you. What if it's pure evil? You don't want to face that. So lies aren't all bad - we need them to live.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.