Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present. I want to gather them, like somebody's grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of Rama or Krishna in one or the other form.

Kumbh Mela is the best way to get an insight of our culture.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

Culture is coded wisdom

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

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

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

What counts is the cultural level

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.

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto and I believe they should be preserved and remounted in the interests of our city's heritage.