Quotes about Art and Culture

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. Votes: 6

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. Votes: 6

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture. Votes: 6

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. Votes: 5

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home. Votes: 5

For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. Votes: 5

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor. Votes: 5

Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture. Votes: 5

My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music. Votes: 5

There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do. Votes: 5

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. Votes: 5

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. Votes: 4

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned. Votes: 4

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar ... Votes: 4

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable. Votes: 3

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth. Votes: 3

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture. Votes: 3

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster. Votes: 3

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. Votes: 3

I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture. Votes: 3

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. Votes: 3

I love Mexico because that's where I'm from, but my favorite city, whenever I need to recharge, I love Paris. I get very inspired while I'm there. There's so much art and culture, and Paris, before New York, that was the capital of the world. And I love history too, so I go there. It does something special to me. Votes: 3

I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now. Votes: 3

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive. Votes: 3

We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country. Votes: 2

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. Votes: 2

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. Votes: 2

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture. Votes: 2

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. Votes: 2

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. Votes: 2

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid. Votes: 2

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. Votes: 2

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 2

Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture. Votes: 2

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science. Votes: 2

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Votes: 2

I don't believe in very many things, but art is definitely one of them. And at the top of that list, film and art influence our world's culture much more than many of us understand and fully respect. Votes: 2

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower. Votes: 2

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. Votes: 2

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way. Votes: 2

Art is the questioning of culture Votes: 0

Art is such an important part of our culture. Votes: 0

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture. Votes: 0

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. Votes: 0

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from. Votes: 0

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. Votes: 0

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. Votes: 0

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. Votes: 0

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. Votes: 0

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me Votes: 0

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. Votes: 0

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. Votes: 0

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art. Votes: 0

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. Votes: 0

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. Votes: 0

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence. Votes: 0

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. Votes: 0

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. Votes: 0

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. Votes: 0

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. Votes: 0

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me. Votes: 0

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult. Votes: 0

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. Votes: 0

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. Votes: 0

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. Votes: 0

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. Votes: 0

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. Votes: 0

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. Votes: 0

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. Votes: 0

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. Votes: 0

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. Votes: 0

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. Votes: 0

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form. Votes: 0

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. Votes: 0

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. Votes: 0

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in. Votes: 0

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Votes: 0

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. Votes: 0

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture. Votes: 0

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. Votes: 0

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. Votes: 0

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time. Votes: 0

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. Votes: 0

Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay. Votes: 0

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. Votes: 0

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from. Votes: 0

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. Votes: 0

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. Votes: 0

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art. Votes: 0

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture. Votes: 0

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference. Votes: 0

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you. Votes: 0

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man. Votes: 0

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life. Votes: 0

The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. Votes: 0

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." Votes: 0

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity. Votes: 0

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. Votes: 0

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance. Votes: 0

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Votes: 0

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black. Votes: 0

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. Votes: 0

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for. Votes: 0

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. Votes: 0

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved Votes: 0

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Votes: 0

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. Votes: 0

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art. Votes: 0

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective? Votes: 0

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. Votes: 0

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same? Votes: 0