#sophisticated

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #effects #frivolous #result #sophisticated

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#become #buildings #get #more #our

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#defeated #did #faith #like #sophisticated

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

#audiences #book #comic #comic book #couple

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. ↗

— Bill Joy

#going #lot #more #sophisticated #systems

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#i #little #more #most #sophisticated

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into