Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

The main reason western culture has been dominant is because Europeans have controlled political, economic and social power including educational policy for the last several centuries.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is in the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

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.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

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.

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Great artists have no country.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state of mind.

Art is the signature of civilizations.