Henri Poincare Quotes

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.

Elegance is elimination.

I abhor mere prettiness.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

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

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

I'm interested in beauty more than anything else.

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

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

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

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.