"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."

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"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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Arthur Golden, American Writer

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"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German Author

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"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."

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"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."

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"Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man."

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."

"Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something."

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."

"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."

"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."

"Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man."