"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

Cultural, Elegance, Individualism, Italy, Taste

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"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

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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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Joseph Addison, English Writer

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

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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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

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"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."

Design

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

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"We all look for lost time."

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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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"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

"We all look for lost time."

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"Italy is a divided country without a center."

"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."