Quotes About Culture

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.

For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.