Quotes About Culture

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn't speak language that's acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Earth without "art" is just "eh

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

Mankind will begin to recover the moment we take art as seriously as physics, chemistry, or money.

Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?