Art And Culture Quotes

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• 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.

  Astra Taylor

  Art, Mean, Essentials

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.132, Macmillan

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• 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.

  David Dinkins

  Country, Art, New York

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• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Art, Culture, Belief

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• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Future, Perfect, Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

  Kevin Spacey

  Art, Culture, Exposure

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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Prejudice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Civilization, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Culture, Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dance, History, World

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) preface

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• 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.

  Chuck D

  Art, Reality, People

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• Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

  John Abbott

  Men, May, Ability

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• 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.

  Adam McKay

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Media, Literature, Reconstruction

  "Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills". Book by Karl Albrecht, p. 6, 1979.

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• 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.

  Art Spiegelman

  Art, Thinking, Validation

  "In the Shadow of No Towers". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2004.

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• Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Knowing, Culture, Habit

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• 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.

  Gustavo Dudamel

  Art, Children, Goal

  "Why Music, Part 5: Music and Education" by Frank Fitzpatrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Spiritual, Art, Government

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• 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.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Dance, Appreciation, Art

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• 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.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Country, Art

  "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• 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.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Home, Israel

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

  Danny Boyle

  Art, People, Culture

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• We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

  Amartya Sen

  Art, Culture, World

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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