Quotes of: Indian-culture Keyword

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile...

James Henry Breasted

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Lewis Mumford

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

Mike Mills

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

Michael Palin

From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

Patricia Heaton

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Polly Toynbee

Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.

Ryan Kavanaugh

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Twyla Tharp

Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.

Virginia Postrel

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

The Institutes of Biblical Law, Volume 1 of 3

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

A Room with a View

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

Signatura 400

Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on which it depends.

Sabine

...the Moon, the enemy of poets... ("Merchant's Two Sons")

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

A Step of Faith

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Notebooks 1951-1959

Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

Nature's Gifts Anthology