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.
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Girl in audience: [about Lina] She's so refined. I think I'll kill myself.
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
To this I replied, "I still think that my body is not merely a sensory appearance, for surely it came from my parents, who were its cause and condition." , "If you think that your body came from your father and mother, then what are the beginning and...
Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
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.
He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
You pay a whore to make you feel like a man, you fund a philharmonic to make yourself feel like a refined man.
Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.
Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.
All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment.
There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.
