“Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see… — Rebecca Sugar Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture. — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture? — Bart Chilton Copy Share Image
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money;… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“By the same token, I think it's time that we allow ourselves to experience real anger as women. And I don't mean… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true… — Devin C. Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Einstein was distrustful of elaborate mathematics, odd as that sounds for a mathematical physicist. There was, Einstein considered, too much math around,… — Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In popular culture, there isn't any other conception of Islam and Muslims other than what you see on the news... When you… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses,… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Page-one news as it occurred, the story of the comics controversy is a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the culture… — David Hajdu Copy Share Image
“We’re at this really unique time, I think, in trans representation in popular culture where homelessness, depression, mental health issues, instability-in-general are… — Mitch Kellaway Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the question was premature in Turner’s time, but not now. Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of… — Robert Zubrin Copy Share Image
“A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“There is a huge trapdoor waiting to open under anyone who is critical of so-called 'popular culture' or (to redefine this subject)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All the creatures of folklore and popular culture raise unanswered questions about the bodies we inhabit. The walking corpse horrifies because our… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the dream of liberating "high art" from its pretenses & returning it to the mass orgy of popular culture.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show. — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
Those are the things that excite me; what can you do with popular culture? — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
