Quotes About Culture

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

I think the arts are very important for children growing up.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

There are films that can only be made in a specific country but that have a wider meaning. I think that's true of any art form.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

No arts, no letters - no society.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

People don't buy lady art.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.