Quotes About Culture

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

I personally always hated Pop art.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

The arts have always served relationships between people of different cultures so well. In a way, the arts function as a very serious kind of ambassador.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.