Quotes About Refinement

Every album I just try to step it up. I don't try to overdo myself, overpower myself.

Madame Joubert was a woman completely in control, a woman of iron self-discipline. Her long grey hair was pinned up in an elaborate chignon, her slim figure suggested so many meals half-eaten, so many courses where she had taken one mouthful and pushed away her plate.

CANI for Constant And Never-Ending Improvement.

The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.

The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. This kind of work is hard to convey in a research paper.

Building something by gradually refining a prototype is good for morale because it keeps you engaged.

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

practice makes better

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

The better you get, the better you better get.

If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it... better.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

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