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Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
— Alexander Stoddart
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
— Thomas Wolfe
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.
— Samuel R. Delany
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
— Harold Bloom
God is desperately looking for those he could send to the world of art and culture, to rule the place for him.
— Sunday Adelaja
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
— Immanuel Kant
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.
— Rebecca Sugar
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
— Twyla Tharp
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.
— Curtis Jackson
Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
— Elisabeth Bronfen
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
— Junot Diaz
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.
— Camille Paglia
The only interesting ideas are heresies
— Susan Sontag
One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.
— Sara Sheridan
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.
— Richard Briers
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
— Andre Malraux
We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.
— Jeffrey Deitch
A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.
— Robert Payne
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
Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.
— Michael Landon Jr.
Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.
— Carl Andre
After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
— Niall Ferguson
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.
— Langdon Brown Gilkey
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.
— Fran Lebowitz
All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.
— Susan Sontag
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
— Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
— Philip Zaleski
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.
— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.
— Shirin Neshat
Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!
— Morrissey
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.
— Romare Bearden
He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.
— Arthur Urbane Dilley
I bring the girl to a museum, try to show her a little culture, and she turns a Chihuly into a giant phallus.
— Nicki Elson
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
— Walter Darby Bannard
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
— Jeffrey Deitch
Art is the questioning of culture
— Gerard Mortier
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.
— Buenaventura Durruti
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.
— Jess Row
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
— Denis Villeneuve
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.
— Billy Higgins
Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.
— Harry Hooton
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
— Robert E. Howard
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
— David Elliott
Human Resources management is a skill ingrained with an art to execute.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
The theater has been called the pulse of the people.
— Abigail Adams
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
— Stephen Marche
Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.
— Laszlo Krasznahorkai
A good artist makes imaginations real!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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."
— Denise Duhamel
Culture is local; art, universal.
— Marty Rubin
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
— George Grosz
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
— Francis Schaeffer
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.
— Lisa Cholodenko
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
— Susan Neiman
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.
— Roger Scruton
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
— Jennifer Stone
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
— Roger Zelazny
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
— Marsha Norman
I'm very headstrong. Once I've caught fire, there's no dousing the flames - all engines full speed ahead.
— Adachi Zenko
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
— Germaine Greer
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available to all.
— Neve McIntosh
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
— Howard Schultz
Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.
— Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna
The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you - energy begets energy.
— Adachi Zenko
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
— Ernst Fuchs
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
— Diane Wakoski
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.
— Semen Frank
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.
— Chris Marker
