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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. (John Abbott)
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. (Peter Abrahams)
We are not just a country of war or oil. We are a proud culture that goes back 6,000 years to the Sumerians. We have been making art for longer than anyone. This is what gives us identity. This is what will make our art last another 1,000 years, when all this war is forgotten. (Qasim Al-Sabti)
Artists create identities for cultures and societies. (Anonymous)
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. (Rudolf Arnheim)
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)
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and what is more, the passion for making them prevail. (Matthew Arnold)
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. (James Baldwin)
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. (Darby Bannard)
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. (Ruth Benedict)
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. (Ruth Fulton Benedict)
Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish! (William Blake)
We are no longer dependant on what New York, Paris, Rome or L.A. says about culture and art. We have become both international and regional at the same time. (Linda Blondheim)
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. (Ray Bradbury)
I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. (Earle Brown)
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second, hand. (Samuel Butler)
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)
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle)
The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it – it's as immediate and as superficial as that. (Matthew Collings)
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. (Charles Horton Cooley)
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them – in a word, to create a living art – this has been my aim. (Gustave Courbet)
Works of art are not passive reflections of economic, social or political conditions. They actively enable a society, or group within society, to accomplish various goals that could not otherwise be obtained. (Corinne D'Antonio)
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. (Angela Davis)
I am sure that only art will bring together all the peoples of the world. (Ousmane Dia)
In every human society of which we know – prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial – at least some form of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in. (Ellen Disanayake)
The basic element of every culture is ART. (David Dory)
Every culture is defined by its artists. (David Dory)
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. (Denis Dutton)
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. (Henry Van Dyke)
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. (Hans Magnus Enzensberger)
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture? (Jonathan Franzen)
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call "the arts." (Edward J. Fraughton)
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi)
I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status. (Mahatma Gandhi)
The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators. (Robert Genn)
When the white man came we had the land and they had the Bibles; now they have the land and we have the Bibles. (Chief Dan George)
Whoever controls the media – the images – controls the culture. (Allen Ginsberg)
All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different. (Henry Glassie)
Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation. (Thor Hansen)
If you see in any given situation only what everyone else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. (S. I. Hayakawa)
Art is the product of the culture of the day. That which is a clone of yesterday's art is not art at all. (Susan Holland)
Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of. (Elbert Hubbard)
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. (Robert Hughes)
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)
The process of immersing myself in other cultures has become the most intensely emotional artistic experience of my life. (Glen Knowles)
Look what is happening in the world - we are being conditioned by society, by the culture we live in, and that culture is the product of man. There is nothing holy, or divine, or eternal about culture. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. (Barbara Kruger)
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture.. not only national culture but global culture. You can make good art anywhere. But these two towns have an incredible density of cultural producers: people who migrate to them in order to define themselves through their work. (Barbara Kruger)
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. (Claude Levi-Strauss)
The artist has to be a guardian of the culture. (Robert Longo)
I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth. (Yo-Yo Ma)
Art surrounds us in its totality. Why does our culture persist in separating art from function? At the start of the 21st century we are surrounded by a preponderance of bad design and eyesores upon the land, in our homes and in the media. (Barbara MacDougall)
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. (Norman Mailer)
The effect of positive globalization on art is dual, for without native or national art there can be no globalization and without globalization there can be no unity in the world today. (Abed Malhas)
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up. (Andre Malraux)
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is the real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss. (Robert Motherwell)
May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary – light to the dark, fire to the chill. (Jan Phillips)
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. (Ayn Rand)
We have only two ways to react to creative people in this culture; we either worship them or we're jealous. (Albert Rothenberg)
The artist is the record keeper of present time and keeper of timeless culture. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak)
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (John Ruskin)
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards. (Paul Russo)
A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. (William Shakespeare)
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. (Stendhal)
If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. (Henry David Thoreau)
The Law of Raspberry Jam: The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets. (Alvin Toffler)
The best art intersects the culture it exists in, rather than critiques it. (Meyer Vaisman)
-from The Value of Art...
One artist over a period of 40 years can depict through their art a complete and distinctive cultural identity of their region. (Barbara Weaver-Bosson)
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. (Simone Weil)
In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving nation. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler)
Art speaks the soul of its culture. (Abby Willowroot)
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe)
You can lead a person to culture, but you can't make them think. (Thomas Wolfe)
Cultural activity and access to the materials of the life of the imagination is as ordinary and as vital as the right to read, the right to shelter, squarely at the centre of our lives as the catalyst of our imaginations and the prompter of our dreams. (Max Wyman)
We are in the process of a cultural revolution under global culturalism. (Gu Xiong)
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