Quotes About Culture

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

An art book is a museum without walls.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts