“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
Norman Mailer
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
Jack Kerouac
“Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for”
Amos Tversky
“Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion”
Helen Rowland
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
Camille Paglia
