Tiya Sircar Quotes

I am a Bengali, I like my rice.

I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

I'm obsessed with all things Bengali, man. I love fish, my maid is Bengali, I acted in Bengali and Bangladeshi films.

I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

No country is fully civilized which cannot appreciate its artists. They make a contribution not just to the entertainment side of life, but to the educational, economic and spiritual sides.

When the arts are taken out of the syllabus, people are not going to know what it's like to value the theater.

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

A nation’s literature is the expression of a nation's mind in writing and the concentration of intellect for the purpose of spreading itself abroad and multiplying its energy

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver.

I thought actors were artists and that artists had to be European.

I've long wanted to introduce children to the wonder of the arts.

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

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.