Jean-Michel Frank quotes

Jean-Michel Frank quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.”
-- Jean-Michel Frank

#Mean Quotes #Elegance Quotes #Elimination Quotes

“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”
“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”
“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”
“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”
“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”

Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
“Elegance is like manners. You canâ€™t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then itâ€™s another matter.”
“Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.”
“For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.”
“Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.”
“The secret to concentration is elimination.”

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