Quotes About Culture

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

The song of the brush.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

I've become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital - no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We've come into our own, finally.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct.

White is an attitude.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.