Quotes About Culture

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

The most important thing in art is taste.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.