“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”
Yves Saint Laurent
“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.”
Mark Twain
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside.”
William Morris
“Everything's been so overembellished, I think there's a move to a more clean, refined approach, although not like the minimalism of the '90s, ... having a sorbet after a heavy meal.”
George Sharp
“She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.”
Alvar Aalto
