Culture Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Popular culture Seductive
Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality. — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want. — Victor Davis Hanson 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 temple of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality are more… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Those are the things that excite me; what can you do with popular culture? — Naughty Boy Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
