Refinement

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

José Ortega y Gasset

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Robert Pinsky

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Wayne Cordeiro

What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What fascinates me about that is we’r...

Stuart Dybek

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with...

Jonathan Stroud

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything...

Mervyn Peake

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein