Quotes About Culture

Drama should be taught in schools to have more artistic people.

I certainly don't get any pleasure from watching someone else dancing. That's weird. Why would anyone pay money to watch an adult dance? Just moving around in a rhythmical fashion. It's the worst medium for artistic expression.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

I love the arts.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.

I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.

I wanted to be liked when I was younger, which I think a lot of us do; I'm not ashamed to say it. I was a product of my environment, a product of my culture.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

I live between Europe, America and Asia.

Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

I grew up in Asia. I was born in Asia.

A force de s'intéresser à tout, le Parisien finit par ne s'intéresser à rien.

Cuando la doctrina del ¿Que pagas? reemplace al ¿Que piensas? y pase a ser patrimonio del pueblo. ¿Que sera del país? pag179

Man sieht, daß sich in allen Schichten der Gesellschaft die Bräuche gleichen und nur in der Art, dem Äußerlichen und der Nuance verschieden sind. Auch die große Gesellschaft hat ihr Rotwelsch; aber dieses Rotwelsch heißt ›der Stil‹.

Trasladada a París, una mujer que en provincias pasa por ser bonita no llama la menor atención, porque solo es bella según el refrán que reza que «en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey».

France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics.

When a Parisian drops into the country he is cut off from all his usual habits, and soon feels the dragging hours, no matter how attentive his friends may be to him. Therefore, because it is so impossible to prolong in a tete-a-tete conversations that are soon exhausted, the master and mistress of a country-house are apt to say, calmly, "You will be terribly bored here.

Quand on connaît Paris, on ne croit à rien de ce qui s'y dit, et on ne dit rien de ce qui s'y fait.

Pretendo l'ospitalità degli Arabi. Devo esservi sacro; altrimenti, aprite e andrò incontro alla morte.

We shall see no more great ladies in France, but there will be 'ladies' for a long time, elected by public opinion to form an upper chamber of women, and who will be among the fair sex what a 'gentleman' is in England.

Customs are reflection of the people and the law is reflection of country's reason.