Mary Douglas Quotes

Art has to be reflective of our society.

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

The Law Society should be more of a mirror of society.

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

At the end of the day, films mirror our society. It will take time for everybody to open up to this and accept it. They are not instantly going to sit up and change the way they think about it.

As an actor, I think it is my responsibility to hold a mirror to the society.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed.

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.

When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.