Quotes About Refinement

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

kill my darlings

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the 'core aspect of the design'

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

There is a certain dignity to being French.

Leisure with dignity.

Everybody looks to expand their game. That's how you keep yourself in this league, in this game.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.