Quotes About Culture

Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

This is the golden age of grotesque.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I'm a liberal arts junkie.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.

The public buys "art" - but the word is drained of its meaning.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Art is the questioning of culture