Refined Quotes
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
Like the intense fire that transforms iron into steel, as we remain faithful during the fiery trial of our faith, we are spiritually refined and strengthened.
The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for
I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.
Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes.
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.
Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically defining what it means to be civilized, educated, and refined.
Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.