Quotes About Refinement

I think in terms of the work were doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of everything except the very best.

If you're going to do something, do it with style!

Style should breathe elegance.

I've found that motherhood helps you figure out what absolutely needs to be done and what doesn't. You just learn to do everything quicker and quicker - your style and your makeup gets more refined and generally easier.

I tend to gravitate towards very simple, minimalistic styles.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.

Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.