Art Quote by Erich Fromm

We lack rituals in this modern world.

— Elizabeth McGovern

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

— Erich Fromm

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between…

— Alexander McCall Smith

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

— R. D. Laing

“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely…

— Robert A. Johnson

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

— Joseph Campbell

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

— Cate Blanchett

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well…

— John Hench

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art'…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man…

— Andre Malraux

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

— Eleanora Duse

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive…

— Richard Dawkins