Quotes About Culture

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk.

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.