Quotes About Culture

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.