“I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.” ArtArtistCultureRight NowPopsAdmireAbstractPop ArtReferencing Author:Christian Marclay
“The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.” ArtCultureModernConditionsMovementMaterialsBearsArt IsMarkPsychologicalAbstractModernismAbstract ArtModern Culture Author:Meyer Schapiro
“Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.” CultureTheoryPhysicsAbstractQuantumQuantum PhysicsSpecialists Author:Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
“As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.” PeopleWritingPlayProblemCultureFeltDealsIssuesWindPeriodsFinishedSensitiveAbstractResolveEmphasisAlways BelieveEmbedded Author:Arthur Miller
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.” MeanHandsMightScienceCultureSecretPrinciplesTechnologyHigherOrganizationInstrumentsInspiredSupremeSavingAbstractLatterOver It Author:Johan Huizinga
“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.” PeopleHumansRealityCultureProcessRightsStandardsAimHuman RightsSettingSettingsEvolveAbstractLiving Reality Author:Mary Robinson
“I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.” ShouldCultureTermLosesPityAbstractVocabulary Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals
“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.” MenWarStoriesShowsTurnsCultureStrongCausesEffectsHeroCircumstancesWeakCaughtIntenseAbstractDryRebellionTimelessPlagueCause And EffectScoundrelsChroniclesVeneerWeak Man Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides