Quotes About Culture

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of 'Hi, it's nice to meet you' in this part of the world. Frankly, I think standard greetings work better, but what do I know?

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.