Adjectives Quote by Jeanloup Sieff

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

— Hans Hofmann

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity…

— David Lehman

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of…

— William Cobbett

I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of…

— Jeanloup Sieff

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

— Anonymous

I personally can't handle frivolous violence. I overreact to it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

— Lauren Mayberry

“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly…

— Laurie Cabot

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

— James Mackintosh

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

— John Kenneth Galbraith