Quotes About Refinement

So do the Winds, and Thunders cleanse the Air: So working Seas settle and purge the Wine; So lop't and pruned Trees do flourish fair, So doth the Fire the drossy Gold refine.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

Abstract discussions and heavy facts are the groundwork of his involved theory, or analysis, but they cannot be given to the public until they are simplified and dramatized. The refinements of reason and the shadings of emotion cannot reach a considerable public.

Become a motivator of writing, not the butcher of it; similarly, become an editor, not the copy editor.

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Sometimes people have the idea that art should be highly refined. But I always believed that one could make art out of simple, humble things. Small things can be transcendental. They can change our way of looking at the world. I think it's important to make art out of almost anything.

She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality.

An actor should refine public taste.

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.

Beauty is less important than quality.

Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

I believe in quality over quantity.

I like quality over quantity.