Quotes About Culture

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

Senegal needs a renaissance.

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.

I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.

I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to the state.

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

In Germany, a new sect shall be born which shall renew ancient pagan times.

I think the real needs in the country are for cultural renewal.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.

I remember so many times in the summer there was shootouts and things going on and it was just a part of it. It wasn't even like you regretted it; you still was looking forward to next summer. It was like oh damn, my man got killed but we gon' rep him and next summer we gonna ball again. It was just a part of the culture.

There's a particularly British way of going about things that I rather like, which is very different to the American way. It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: 'Well, I'm only 26, but I'll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear.'

Every year, I always go abroad with dark music, and I'm going to these places, and I feel like I want a party rep - I want something that everyone is going to go crazy to and enjoy and have a good feeling.