Quotes About Sophistication

Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid.

There is something wonderfully comfortable about having a lady's legs under one's table, Aubrey.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

As for building something users love, here are some general tips. Start by making something clean and simple that you would want to use yourself. Get a version 1.0 out fast, then continue to improve the software, listening closely to users as you do. The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to simplify and clarify, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to add.

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

Volvía a escuchar esa despedida maricona diciéndole: Fue bonito conocerte. Pero qué descaro del güevón darle la cortada con tanta finura.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.

and French-braided hair

means. And her small, chic penthouse apartment