Quotes About Culture

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I have a strong art-history background.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.