Quotes About Refinement

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

Good writing is essentially rewriting.

Tact is good taste in action.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

If only art were as rare as good taste.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!