Quotes About Culture

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

In the '70s it was skateboards, in the '80s it was drugs, in the '90s it was art, and now it's my family.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Film and art are close together.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

there is no politically neutral art.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

I'm very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

Religion is in every aspect of art, when it's not baroque.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.