Gaudy Quotes

You want it to still look classy and elegant - as much as it can look, anyway. It is still kind of gaudy, but you don't want it to be extreme. - Paul Wall

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. - Earl Scruggs

The National Western is a symbol of our culture, perhaps a gaudy expression of who we are in our wildest dreams. Raising awareness of our culture is the primary value of the National Western. - Kathleen Kelley

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. - John Gunther

The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour. - Oscar Wilde

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please. - Samuel Wesley

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. - Lord Byron

It's loud, it's cheap, it's gaudy. It's like everything I've ever done - I LOVE IT! - Betty Grable

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. - Camille Paglia