Bruno Maag Quotes

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

I used to draw and do a lot of calligraphy and typography. I'm a big sketcher, too.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.

In Europe they understand that the arts are incredibly important both culturally and economically.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.