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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture. -- Danny Boyle
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
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. -- Carlos Slim
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
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
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
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
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. -- Ze Frank
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. -- Ai Weiwei
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
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
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. -- Wes Craven
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. -- Pratibha Patil
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. -- James Norton
Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable. -- Kevin Spacey
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
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. -- Ai Weiwei
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
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. -- Ze Frank
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
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
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. -- Diego Boneta
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. -- Carrie Brownstein
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
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country. -- Richard Briers
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth. -- Noam Chomsky
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. -- Diane Wakoski
We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture. -- David Elliott
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me. -- Johnny Weir
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. -- Philip Warren Anderson
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. -- Lyor Cohen
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. -- Christian Marclay
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? -- Polly Toynbee
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. -- Arne Glimcher
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. -- Michael Leunig
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. -- Wassily Kandinsky
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. -- Megan Ellison
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. -- Ryan Kavanaugh
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. -- Aman Mojadidi
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. -- Fred Armisen
Art is the questioning of culture -- Gerard Mortier
Art is such an important part of our culture. -- Rosanna Arquette
Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture. -- Harry Hooton
Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance. -- Shirin Neshat
Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from. -- Sonia Sanchez
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. -- Langdon Brown Gilkey
Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. -- Lynda Obst
Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me -- Lady Gaga
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. -- Alexander Stoddart
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. -- Robert Hughes
The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art. -- Andrew Hoberek
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. -- Jeff Smith
Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence. -- Michael Landon, Jr.
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. -- Jess Row
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. -- George Grosz
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize. -- Germaine Greer
I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me. -- Paige Bradley
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult. -- Ernst Fuchs
I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture. -- Stephen Mallinder
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. -- Frederick Busch
When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. -- Chris Marker
Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. -- Camille Paglia
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
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art. -- Twyla Tharp
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. -- Dasha Zhukova
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. -- Hans Haacke
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. -- Leland Ryken
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
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. -- Marsha Norman
The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art. -- Junot Diaz
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
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
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. -- Parker Posey
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
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
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture. -- Meyer Schapiro
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
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
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
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
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. -- Gia Carangi
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
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
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
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. -- Mark McMorris
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. -- Neil Gaiman
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. -- David Brooks
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. -- Joe Bradley
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. -- Denis Dutton
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. -- Fidel Castro
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
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. -- John Cowper Powys
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
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. -- Douglas Coupland
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. -- W. H. Auden
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. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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. -- Lewis Mumford
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
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
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. -- Salman Rushdie
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. -- W. H. Auden
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
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
...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. -- Orhan Pamuk
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. -- Andre Malraux
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. -- Takashi Murakami
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? -- Common
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. -- Josef Pieper
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? -- Seth Troxler

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