Ezra Pound Quotes

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

Civilizations are a matter of the mind.

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture

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

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

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.