“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.” KnowledgeWiseFashionIgnorance Author:Baltasar Gracian
“A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.” HappensOrderSpeakPerfectFashionIgnoranceShapesDressesMetaphorTricksArchitectConformGothicCorinthiansSnobbyFrench Woman Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.” WritingTodayFoundStudyCenturyFashionStylePositionIgnoranceDirectorsResearchAimParisToneColourQuartersAcademicCharmingImpartEndearingHaughtiness Author:Sebastian Smee
“Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.” TodayFunnyFashionStyleIgnoranceTomorrowRageYesterdayPaceStupidity And Ignorance Author:Frank Dane