Quotes About Culture

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.