Quotes About Culture

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.

The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Art should never be popular.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

I think Hollywood's gotten more reactionary and conservative over the years, because there's no longer art in Hollywood. Art suffers in Hollywood.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Without art there is no hope.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.