Quotes About Culture

Cultural Imperium' suggesting the idea of cultural hegemony such that what appears to be 'avant garde' and 'radical' is in fact intensely conservative and defined by the forces of economy and commodity trading which have absolutely no bearing on intrinsic value.

Joan Maragall

Such flat and distant voices confirm the rhetoric of William Blake: "Grace" is underwritten by constant, speechless suffering, and "culture" begins in the callused hands of exhausted children, weaving robotically in sleep, "going through the motions Ã¢â'¬Â¦ when they were really doing nothing.

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

smart talk trap."17 This a syndrome where companies hire, reward, and promote people for sounding smart rather than making sure that smart things are done.

In short, if you are a boss, ask yourself: 'Who have I anointed as stars?' Think of your workplace more broadly and ask, 'Do we anoint people who bolster or bring down others' performance and humanity?

Effective scaling depends on believing and living a shared mindset throughout your group, division, or organization.

Perry "puts all the bad apples in one barrel" so they don't wreck other teams. He then assigns a no-nonsense coach to lead the bad apples or does it himself—he is adept at dispensing tough love.

las personas no se marchan de las organizaciones, sino que huyen de los malos jefes».

In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

And without shared culture, civilization is doomed.

To a European, a hundred miles is a big journey; to an American, a hundred years is a long time.

My Canada includes Quebec—but its license plates no longer call it La belle province. I can't remember what they say now.

Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.

He noticed his voice shook a little, and he didn't like it. American males have their standards, after all.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap.

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.