Quotes About Culture

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

I approach the world as a whole by taking an integrative approach, not a world of parts, and I like to bring different fields and disciplines together. The same is true with my preoccupation with cultural expression.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

The culture of Booking.com has been very good for me because it's a culture where you're allowed to fail. When you think about taking risks, if it's OK to fail, you actually do a lot more. And you learn a lot quicker.

My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.

I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.

In fact, in the original folk tale, Aladdin was actually of Chinese descent. So what we wanted to do with this was represent as many different cultures from that part of the world as possible.

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

We have contributed through Indian culture; so many international collections are Indian-inspired. Why we don't make an international impact? We have talent, but we have not leveraged it, not married commerce to design.

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Over time, diversity has come to be acknowledged as an essential enhancer of corporate productivity, performance, and talent engagement.

There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.

Earlier in our country, rapping was not considered as a proper art form, as it is not a song. But now, incorporation of rap in Bollywood songs, is giving rappers a chance to show their talent and it is coming to the mainstream.

In an arts programme, my job was to go where the talent was. And the talent was in popular culture.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps people lack the talent as yet, but at least there's a stable platform available to promote this as an art form.

You obviously have to build a culture, a foundation. You must build the right talent however you do it. Then you have to build the systems and the habits.

I'm a proud mainstream musician, but having said that, I do firmly believe there's more to musical talent in India than just Bollywood.