Cultural Importance Quotes

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial.

Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

When Christopher Columbus went to America, in what language did he speak with the Indians? It is said that the language they spoke with the Indians – and I have indisputable documentation of this at home... The intellectuals among the Indians spoke Arabic. He took two Arabs with him, to serve as interpreters between the Spaniards and the Indians. He took two of them as translators. So you can imagine the historic and cultural value of Arabic. It's undoubtedly very important.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

Being a Muslim is very important to me, more important than anything, although sometimes travel makes it difficult for me to always pray when I want to.