Cristobal Balenciaga famous quotes

Elegance is elimination.
-- Cristobal Balenciaga

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A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
-- Cristobal Balenciaga

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Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

Elegance is elimination.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.