Quotes About Heritage

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

I haven't made art about Israel. There's a covert subtext of Jewish identity in my artwork.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.

It was impossible for the daughter of Lady Liane Holmes-Aubrey Saint Martin and Keenan Saint Martin to go ignored.