Quotes about Sophistication

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.