Quotes About Culture

Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them.

Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.