“Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.” GivingHumansChildrenArtLife IsLyingNamesBuildingOur ChildrenBeachYour ChildrenAestheticSophisticatedBeing HumanHumanisticSandcastles Author:Calvin Seerveld
“I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.” HumansCharacterTodayFilmHuman BeingsWatchesComicClosestTimingSophisticatedAmazedCartoonCartoon CharacterBusters Author:John Lasseter
“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art” HumansArtBookBodyEyeTermWealthWrittenFiguresTypeReaderMajorsFemaleTrainWesternMalesProportionCategoriesSophisticatedRepresentationIntroductionEvaluateOutlinesImposingIllustrationBody Types Author:Camille Paglia
“The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.” HumansSometimesUseMoralDrivingMannersBoardsMotiveSophisticatedAutomobile Author:Charles Mengel Allen
“Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.” HumansLastsConsciousnessMysteryTongueConfusedThinkerTiedSophisticatedTopicsSurvivingHuman ConsciousnessTongue Tied Author:Daniel Dennett