Culture Quote by Nell Irvin Painter Download Open image “What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.” — Nell Irvin Painter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Culture Trained Depends Depends Heavily Heavily Culture Look Looks Trained Look
What we see in what we look at, depends mainly on what we look for. — Jeromy Shingongo Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it? — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before.… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art. — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and… — Nell Irvin Painter 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
