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You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.
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Something impractical cannot be beautiful.
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Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley.
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Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
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thin and elegant as a mantis
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Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.
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A dainty rogue in porcelain
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Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.
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Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.
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Decorative gestures add romance to a life.
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A weed doesn't care if it is beautiful or not. It only cares that it survives.
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Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.
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Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
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Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
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Now, whereas we do not find it hard to accept the beauty of a flower for itself alone, in present-day, mechanical-industrial civilization, people will usually question the use of a picture. Things are estimated much more for what they do or will do than for what they are or will become ...
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Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
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A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
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A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
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When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.
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An exquisite flower for my exquisite girl.
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The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
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How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.
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For I wish rather, in this lecture at least, to dwell on the effect that decorative art has on human life - on its social not its purely artistic effect.
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I'd rather go with something eccentric
but beautifully eccentric.
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
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Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.
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Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
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[P]enmanship as pretty as a row of tulips
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Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.
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Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
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They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.
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I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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Elegance is a discipline of life.
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Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
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Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
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We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.
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I have an obsession with details and pattern.
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Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.
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There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
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In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.
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AESTHETICS OF THE AESTHETICIAN
What is the aesthetician
But a mule hitched to the times?
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How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.
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The fabric of a garden is determined as much by its textures as by its tonal range and architectural flair.
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Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.
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Being a painter myself ... whenever I could dispense with architectural precision, I indulged in the picturesque, in which case I sacrificed a few details when necessary in favor of an imposing effect that would give a monument its real character and also preserve the poetic charm that surrounds it.
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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business - not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into ... rhetoric and plot.
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Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.
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Take the rose - most people think it very beautiful: I don't care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.
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That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.
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That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
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elegance and euphoria
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Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!
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Filigree - charming if one but overlooked the fact that it
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unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything;
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Art is all in the details.
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I'm interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality ... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.
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Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
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The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
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Exactness of intention produces elegance of style.
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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.
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An elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.
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Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
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That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
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In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee;
Fairies use flower for their charactery.
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Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
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Real elegance is having convictions
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Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.
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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
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What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.
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True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, ... I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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In the general course of things, when beauty passes, the flower bows its head upon the stem and fails. Sometimes, though, when the petals droop, a framework of tempered steel is revealed within.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty,
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Elegance is not about being noticed, it's about being remembered.
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My work is so strongly fashion, and it meant I had to downplay my exuberance and sculptural dimension to something that would fit into jewelry cases and sit next to Rolex watches and David Yurman [pieces].
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Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.
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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.
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Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style:
Symmetry- a love of harmony, balance, and proportion
Economy- satisfaction in producing an abundance of effects from very limited means
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Beauty is not the purpose of creation, it is its reward. Its appearance, often late in the day, is no more than an indication that the disrupted equilibrium between man and nature has once again been restored by art. Submitted to this test, what remains of contemporary works of art?