Quotes About Culture

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Every old poem is sacred.

We'll always have art, darling.