Characteristics Quote by Martin Amis

Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of…

— David LaChapelle

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

— Ai Weiwei

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective…

— Georg Simmel

The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts.

— Diana Palmer

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you…

— Tablo

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature.…

— Eric Hoffer

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses…

— Eckhart Tolle

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions…

— Susan Sontag

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model…

— Arthur Erickson