Frederic Hudson Quotes

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen.

Whatever is shown in a TV show is a reflection of society.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

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.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

A quarter of a century ago, we were crazy about politics. Now we are crazy about making money …. I am afraid that one day we will become money hooligans without culture.

Popular sings are the only art form that describes the temper of the times.