Umberto Eco Quotes

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

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

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

In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dancers and listen to its folk songs—don't pay any attention to its politicians.

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

Without culture, development falls apart.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

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

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

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.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.