Quotes About Heritage

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Art is the soul of a people.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

Every old poem is sacred.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.