Quotes about Culture

You get three Venezuelans together and one will play the drums or the guitar and the other two will dance; there is no ill that can resist that treatment. Our parties, in contrast, seem like funerals: the men gather in a corner to talk business and the women die of boredom. Only the young dance, seduced by North American music, but as soon as they marry they turn solemn like their parents.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Colors speak all languages.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

If New York has just become a mall for the world, then what's the difference between being here and somewhere else?