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Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature. -- Billy Corgan
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization. -- Zahi Hawass
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture. -- Ai Weiwei
I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all. -- Brunello Cucinelli
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. -- Jerry Saltz
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. -- Tom Ford
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about. -- Greg Lynn
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. -- Lewis Mumford
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months. -- Dee Hock
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians. -- Stanley Hauerwas
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. -- Mark Strand
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times. -- Jaquelin T. Robertson
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people. -- Casey Affleck
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. -- Herbert Read
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. -- Terry Eagleton
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it. -- Seamus Heaney
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. -- Tino Sehgal
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. -- Jonathan Sacks
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.' -- Casey Wilson
My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out. -- David Henry Hwang
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. -- Johan Huizinga
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. -- Alexander Crummell
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas. -- Terence McKenna
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
Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence. -- Dana Gioia

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