Quotes About Culture

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Art-school girls are very nice.

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.