Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

Beyond Culture

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

Steven Heighton

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

Madison Smartt Bell

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

Naomie Harris

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Yahoo Serious

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Philip Warren Anderson

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Carlos Slim

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together.

Maurizio Seracini

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

Rebecca Sugar

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

Robert Smithson

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Shakespeare and Modern Culture

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

Seduced by Innocence

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

The Morning Gift

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

Voice of Reason