Quotes About Culture

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

I travel all the time. And as I go around the world, I try to learn a little something and not just take up all the available air.

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time they also create it.

We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.