Quotes About Culture

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

I think that Liverpool's particular modern history lends itself to the cinema better than London in many ways. When you go to Liverpool, you absorb that whole sound and humour.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

What's exciting for me is to make sure that people do still dress up - how do we do that in this fast-paced modern world, when we're all on the move and all so busy?

I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.

There's so much that can be learned from French cooking, especially really traditional, more modest meals.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.

We live in a society of triviality, and my music and what I'm about kind of starts to break that mold and adds more meaning and dialogue to hip hop.

You're molded by the period you were brought up in.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.