Culture Industry Quotes

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I'm very intrigued that in this culture of reality television and celebrity - which is an enormous industry and generates billions and billions of dollars - we're so resourceful.

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own dehumanization as something human, as the joy of warmth. The total interconnectedness of the culture industry, omitting nothing, is one with total social delusion.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by representatives of a benevolent collective; and then, in illusory harmony, they are reconciled with the general interest whose demands they had initially experienced as irreconcilable with their own.

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

It seems to me, in this culture, you need to have a subsidy to do theatre, not that I put theatre above anything else.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.