Quotes About Refinement

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Maharani Gayatri Devi - she was elegance and simplicity personified.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don't have language for. What fascinates me about that is we're talking about an art form in which your medium is language. It's almost a paradox that you're seeing. I want to give you emotion, that if I just relied on diction, I wouldn't have language for it.

Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I've always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.

to incrementally condense the external manifestation of the technique, while keeping true to its essence. Over time, expansiveness decreases, while potency increases. I call this method 'making smaller circles.

El animalismo bajo su disfraz de refinamiento civilizatorio, esconde una involución civilizatoria. Es la vuelta al panteón egipcio, poblado de dioses oscuros a los que no se puede rezar, sino tan sólo apaciguar con sacrificios humanos

you never give anything below your own taste level—something you wouldn't want, but suppose is good enough for others.

People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.

Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

The first instrument is not the final instrument.

My self-editing process is intense.

When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.

I've updated the value of what I sell, rather than the quantity.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

At present society is composed, not so much of men and women, as of the raw material of men and women, which it will be the office of a higher civilization to work up into the forms of a truer manhood and womanhood.

The rules of etiquette were established mostly by women, are chiefly for the benefit of women, and are mainly suited only to the nature of women; and a too punctilious observance of them by a man, goes to show that over-refinement has nearly unsexed him.

Style is what happens when simplicity is achieved.

A gentleman is contemplative in that he never ceases to refine his sense of reality.

Her long hair is loosely tied back, her face very refined and intelligent-looking, with beautiful eyes and a shadowy smile playing over her lips, a smile whose sense of completeness is indescribable. It reminds me of a small, sunny spot, the special patch of sunlight you find only in some remote, secluded place.

Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.