Culture Quote by Shirin Neshat Download Open image “In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.” — Shirin Neshat ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Entertainment Form Risk Western Western world World
Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence. — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks. — Marco Bizzarri Copy Share Image
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You know, to me, that's going to influence the culture. They both influence each other - I know that - but, you know, there's… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
We're either awake or we're sleeping. During the time that we're awake, we work very hard at denying things, mainly because we have to… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Every Iranian artist dreams of the black market. We don't care about making money. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form. — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
My mother is my last point of security in relation to my past, and if that breaks, I will not ever have that type… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression,… — Shirin Neshat 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