Paulo Coelho Quotes

Elegance is not to be noticed, but to be remembered.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

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.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

Art lies in concealing art.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.