Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
Andre Aciman
Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
Charles Hazlewood
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
Dan Hill
Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.
Donna Langley
You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
Elizabeth Berg
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
George Packer
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
Gus Van Sant
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
Harmony Korine
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
Jeff Baena
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.
Jim Crace
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.
Joan Van Ark
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
Kathryn Bigelow
I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.
Louis Theroux
'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
Mark Morris
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone
In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.
Phyllida Lloyd
The more rarefied a life you live, the easier it is to think that those who don't share it could be demonised. To find the common humanity becomes more of a struggle the more you surround yourself with nice things.
Rory Kinnear
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Simon Schama
