Quotes About Culture

the one universal form of art is music.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

I'll never understand the art world. But I kind of feel like there's been some art world/black metal crossovers happening for a while.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Art is the most important way of recording history.