Martin Parr Quotes

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

We want American customs, habits, manners, dress, manufactures, modes of thought, modes of expression, and language. We should encourage national and even State peculiarities; for there are peculiarities and differences in the wants and situations of all people, that require provincial and national, not cosmopolitan, institutions and productions.

Americans are so individualistic, they do not realize their individualism is a communally derived value.

Each culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent possibilities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety..

All people from small islands dance funny.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

Fashion is a reflection of the time.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

I never thought fashion was the job for me, because I'm Japanese. Clothes! That was a European, society thing.

There are different things to wear in different places, and if you want to fit in and show respect, you can dress to do that, or you can dress to show that you are foreign and not from there. That can work, too.

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.

Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.

I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

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

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?

Turkey is viewed as a very modern country and a great place to go and visit and yet Islamic as well. Iran is in some ways like that... with the difference that Iran is probably more influential than Turkey in affairs that are of interest to us.