Quotes About Culture

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I grew up in the art world.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.