Quotes About Culture

My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.