Quotes on Art And Culture

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.