Quotes About Culture

Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Always let your employees come to work with a smile.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.