Munira Mirza Quotes

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The ministry of culture is nowhere, but cultural life is everywhere.

Without culture, development falls apart.

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.

Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

One of the upsides of tourism is that people begin to take themselves a little more seriously (and think their) culture is worth something. So rather than disparaging the local culture, they vitalize it.

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

I really hold on to my culture because it is what made me.

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Unfortunately, I don't look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.