#culture

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#culture #society #art

Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty. ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#creativity #culture #art

Because his [Damien Hirst] art is idea art - art drawn on the back of cigarette packets and beer mats, roughed out in airport departure lounges and the back of the taxis, usually delegated to and carried by others - this leaves Damien a lot of time for what might loosely be called socializing. Hanging around. ↗

— Gordon Burn

#criticism #pop-culture #art

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#educate #girls #change

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are. ↗

— Frank Rich

#after #arguing #cares #culture #know

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american culture #culture #devotion #dignity #education

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. ↗

— Vincent Schiavelli

#cookbooks #culture #find #food #interesting

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#critical #culture #i #our #perfect

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blame #boils #cannot #culture #down

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us. ↗

— George Tenet

#break #culture #drag #ever #faith