Quotes About Culture

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

I paint paintings of people.

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.

If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined.

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

I have a fairly good collection of paintings, both classical and contemporary.

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

I think I grew up in an 'acultural' household - no books, no paintings, never went to an art gallery. I say that, but of course we had the TV.

I had earlier done a few paintings on Durga because I am fascinated by her.

Buy one pair of knickers or underpants from Marks & Spencer. Then you'll truly be like a Brit!

Leaving the house in a pair of flip-flops in Manhattan is disgusting to me, no shade.

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

We go to parties in pajamas. And that is true of a lot of people in Mumbai.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.

It feels good that a lot of people from Pakistan have had a good experience in India.