Quotes About America

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

The words 'mainly in America' translated to me as 'this is bollocks' and I sat back in my chair with a sigh.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called The Venice of America by people who clearly have never been to Venice.

Say you're watching a TV show. Say it's 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, the angst-ridden lone-wolf federal agent who protects America from terrorism by sooner or later causing the violent death of pretty much everybody he meets. If you study this show carefully, you will notice something curious: Jack Bauer never goes to the bathroom. That's why he's so ridden with angst.

But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had six--and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. But he had come to believe such things in the United States. Things had worked out. Difficulties had been overcome. He had worked hard and achieved success. The machinery of government functioned.

After years of struggle, my purpose became clear; for above all, I came to realize that America was truly the land where one could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

America isn't perfect, nor could any nation ever be, but that she has granted more people more freedoms than any other country in the history of the world.

The left's obsession with judging us on immutable characteristics is what will eventually reach a tipping point and turn neighbor against neighbor, dividing America . . . and beyond.

So if you're a progressive liberal, you see America and the West in general as an oppressive, tyrannical regime bent on capitalist destruction and oppression. Conservatives, who generally view the world through more of a religious lens, want to maintain the hard-fought freedoms we have (civilization) while protecting them from the whims of the day (barbarism). Meanwhile, libertarians see big government and the political machine as the biggest threat to personal freedom.

That's not to say America doesn't have issues with prejudice and discrimination. Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.