Quotes about Culture
If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.
— Paul Graham
When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak.
— Paulo Coelho
He who loses the arts loses the culture.
— Francis Schaeffer
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
— John Lennon
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
— Albert Camus
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
— Oscar Wilde
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
— CS Lewis
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.
— Hillary Clinton
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
— John F. Kennedy
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.
— Martin Luther
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
— Victor Hugo
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
— Madeleine L'Engle