G. Bruce Boyer quotes

“Real style is never right or wrong. It's a matter of being yourself on purpose.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

Source : G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.140, Hachette UK

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“Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

Source : G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK

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“It is both delusional and stupid to think that clothes don't really matter and we should all wear whatever we want. Most people don't take clothing seriously enough, but whether we should or not, clothes do talk to us and we make decisions based on people's appearances.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

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“The style of studied nonchalance is the psychological triumph of grace over order.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

Source : "True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear". Book by G. Bruce Boyer, September 08, 2015.

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“Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

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“The man who, as is often said, can get away with wearing a trench coat over his dinner jacket, or an old school tie for a belt, is the one who in fact understands best the rules of proper dress and can bend them to suit his own personality and requirements.”
-- G. Bruce Boyer

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“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

“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.”

“Home is where you can be yourself.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2013). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.171, Random House

“Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.”

“I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.”

“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”

“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”

“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.”

“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”