Artist Quote by Andrew Delbanco

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and…

— Julian Johnson

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I…

— Anonymous

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

I don't think I have enough of an interest in today's cultural mood to connect with or reject it. I'm compelled by the ideas…

— Jorge Elbrecht

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth…

— Rollo May

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed…

— Amanda Harlech

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is…

— Lionel Trilling

“Our culture tends "to regard the mere energy of impulse as being in every mental and moral way equivalent and even superior to defined…

— Lionel Trilling

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental…

— John Irving

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

— Rachel Cusk

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help…

— Michael Leunig

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

— Natalie Massenet