(219 quotes found)
“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
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
Norman Mailer
“I always chose sophisticated parts because you can't really be interesting as a young girl or outstanding as an ingenue.”
Norma Shearer
“Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion”
Helen Rowland
“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”
Don Herold
“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
“For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.”
Hal Borland
“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
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