Quotes About Culture

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

I've always liked what the Navajos say when they part. They never say 'Goodbye.' They say 'Go in beauty.'

Beauty is a social necessity.

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Beauty has never been absolute and immutable but has taken on different aspects depending on the historical period and the country

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

Italy will always have the best food.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.