Quotes About Culture

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

In fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential part of the story. But as a reader, I don't just want descriptions of food, clothing, and places. I want to understand the world to its core, through the eyes of those who live in it.

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

I was born in the middle of the Sahara desert while my parents were there and that's probably why I have a Bedouin spirit!

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car is not really a man.

Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

I have designed 150 saris.

I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

I don't own anything designer.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn't that type.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

I've been fortunate enough to travel and wear beautiful clothing by designers from all over the world.

Designers have always fawned over my skin, especially Tarun Tahiliani. I've definitely felt accepted brown skin and all. But fair girls like Shivani Kapoor were as loved too.

When I am designing, I keep in mind more the American woman than the French woman.

I love our Polynesian designs, whether or not it is coming from Samoa, as I have some of my designs coming from, or right from home in O'ahu.

The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.