Quotes About Culture

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Design is a response to social change.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Your culture is your brand.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.