Timothy F. Cahill Quotes

My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

My mother is Brazilian, and her grandfather was Italian.

I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.

Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.

In reality, you just don't see many Samoan artists. Culturally, it's just not something that's really emphasized much - at least, hand-drawn art.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire.

I am proud of my heritage and my family.

I am fighting royalty. I have gypsy kings on both sides of the family.

I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

QVB have a long history of supporting Australian talent.

It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.

Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.