Quotes About Culture

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.