Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.
I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.
Culture means control over nature.
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.