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refined
«The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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adores, Big Picture, Grand Canyon, intricate, photographic, precise, printing, Real Magic, refined, skills, techniques, The Big Picture, trivia, wide-angle
«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»
Author: James Joyce
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Art
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Above and Beyond, existence of God, fingernail, handiwork, indifferent, pare, paring, parings, refined, The Creation, the existence of God, The God
«Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.»
«Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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confession, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, refined, region
«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.»
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»