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title: "23 High Culture Quotes by 21 authors"
description: "Browse 23 High Culture quotes by 21 authors. Discover the best High Culture sayings and thoughts."
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> [It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melvyn-bragg/it-was-my-idea-for-high-culture-and-popular-culture-to-be-treated/)

[Melvyn Bragg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melvyn-bragg/)

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> [Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mason-cooley/popular-culture-is-seductive-high-culture-is-imperious/)

[Mason Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mason-cooley/)

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> [High culture isn't what it used to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-o-hagan/high-culture-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be/)

[Andrew O'Hagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-o-hagan/)

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> [I admit to a bias toward high culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-tsing-loh/i-admit-to-a-bias-toward-high-culture/)

[Sandra Tsing Loh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-tsing-loh/)

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> [High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kinkade/high-culture-is-paranoid-about-sentiment-but-human-beings-are-2/)

[Thomas Kinkade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kinkade/)

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> [It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/it-the-proof-of-high-culture-to-say-the-greatest-matters-in-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-chaitin/mathematical-high-culture-collides-with-pop-culture-and-all-hell/)

[Gregory Chaitin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-chaitin/)

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> [I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/i-was-a-kid-who-liked-art-and-theater-and-dance-and-music-but-if-you/)

[Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/)

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> [People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fran-lebowitz/people-always-say-pop-culture-as-if-we-have-some-high-culture-to/)

[Fran Lebowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fran-lebowitz/)

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> [High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-d-hlavaty/high-culture-is-the-ability-to-hear-the-william-tell-overture-and-not/)

[Arthur D. Hlavaty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-d-hlavaty/)

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> [A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-scruton/a-high-culture-is-the-self-consciousness-of-a-society-it-contains-the/)

[Roger Scruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-scruton/)

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> [High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/in-its-relation-to-the-reality-of-daily-life-the-high-culture-of-the/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [Now of course like, you know fancy go to the opera and see drama and they regard them as high culture. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-rheingold/now-of-course-like-you-know-fancy-go-to-the-opera-and-see-drama-and/)

[Howard Rheingold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-rheingold/)

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> [“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-kinkade/high-culture-is-paranoid-about-sentiment-but-human-beings-are/)

[Thomas Kinkade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-kinkade/)

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> [“There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-davison-hunter/there-is-little-taste-for-high-culture-especially-in-evangelicalism/)

[James Davison Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-davison-hunter/)

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> [Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/some-people-think-literature-is-high-culture-and-that-it-should-only/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-lovecraft/the-man-or-nation-of-high-culture-may-acknowledge-to-great-lengths/)

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-lovecraft/)

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> [“The general public long ago stopped looking for beauty in high culture. But it still has TV and the movies…you are far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sohrab-ahmari/the-general-public-long-ago-stopped-looking-for-beauty-in-high/)

[Sohrab Ahmari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sohrab-ahmari/)

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> [High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-gilbert-hamerton/high-culture-always-isolates-always-drives-men-out-of-their-class-and/)

[Philip Gilbert Hamerton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-gilbert-hamerton/)

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> [High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion-2/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/high-culture-is-nothing-but-a-child-of-that-european-perversion-3/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-jacobs/responding-to-the-claim-that-not-just-reading-but-high-culture-in/)

[Alan Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-jacobs/)

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