Quotes About Culture

And he wanted more than anything else, deeply and compassionately, to be of help; and he could be of help in this age, and was of help, because artist and philosopher as well as theologian, he cared for culture as well as for Christ.6

El sistema de las escuelas de arte constituyó la base del empuje que el Reino Unido tendría en el futuro en el mundo del arte, la publicidad, el sector editorial, el cine y la moda.

All classicism presupposes a romanticism that went before.

Not knowing how to rid ourselves of our history, we shall be relieved of it by those happy peoples who have none, or next to none. And those happy peoples will impose their happiness on us.

Everything changes but the avant-garde

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Psychologisch beschouwd is het juister de verklaring voor het huidige profitariaat en individualisme te zoeken in een maatschappij die mensen opvoedt om steeds hun eigen voordeel na te streven, los van en desnoods ten koste van de ander. 'Je leeft maar één keer.

These days, politicians are fodder for stand-up comedians; religion prompts associations with suicide bombers or sexual abuse; and everyone is an artist.

je suis l'empire à la fin de la décadence.

C'était un vrai latiniste, puisqu'il était aussi helléniste et que la culture romaine est un rejeton de la culture grecque, cette culture « mondiale » du temps.

Je vois le peintre et son épouse, tous deux francophones, je vois des tableaux, quelques phrases sont échangées et c'est entre nous un coup de foudre mutuel qui devait se perpétuer plus de trente ans, jusqu'à ce que mort s'ensuive. La cordialité réfléchie et directe de l'intelligente Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins y sera pour beaucoup.

The woman smiles and says, "Hey," the standard Norwegian greeting. I "Hey" back, but then she says a whole sentence and I am force to explain, in English, that I have no idea what she is saying. I feel like a fraud, and I see a change in the focus of her eyes. I am a stranger, and even if I am no less welcome, I am still a stranger.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

I've noticed that TV commercials are often in C.

don't know what it is about Africa, but champagne is absolutely compulsory here." Without

Not every place has a story

There was to be a ngoma that night, as there always was for full moons—a tribal dance of the young Kikuyu men and women, up the high embankment at the far edge of the forest.

real business of what it meant to live in those time periods came alive for

On the street, it was dark in the way only Africa can be.

There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951) American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped readers fashion new identities.

would have liked to kiss her on the cheek but he had no idea if the Kiowas kissed one another or if so, did grandfathers kiss granddaughters. You never knew. Cultures were mine fields. He patted the air with a gentle motion. Sit. Stay.

La familia que existe en la cabeza de las personas es más importante que la que se registra en su libreta de tomador del censo...La experiencia de la inmigración proporciona una visión especial sobre cómo las personas aprenden a prescindir de aquello a que estaban acostumbradas para poder adoptar lo nuevo.

When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture.

TV accustoms people to not expecting much.