Cecil Beaton Quotes

Elegance is elimination.

Elegance is refusal.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

I am from the planet of elegance.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

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

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Elegance is a discipline of life.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.