Cultural Reflection Quotes

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.

My fiction is a very accurate reflection of the world we live in. Certainly, in some stories, that reflection is amplified but America elected a man who enjoys grabbing women by their pussies.

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the person who is a serious contender to become head of state. They want their national leader - the tribal chief - to look like them, to live like them, to reflect their values.

Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.