“I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.” ThinkingWayNeedsSeemsOrderCultureInterestingSakePopsMuseumsEngagingPop Culture Author:John Hodgman
“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.” CertainDiesCultureInterestingAliveFailingVery InterestingStaying Alive Author:Campbell McGrath
“The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.” WayCultureInterestingAttentionAudienceOppositesOriginality Author:Ron Perlman
“There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand.” IfsWayCultureInterestingAudienceIssuesClearCommitmentLengthObscure Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.” PeopleKindPersonsCultureLostEnjoyDifficultInterestingMorningCourageRiskWake UpKillingEnormousManageRidingEvery MorningSpouseCheerfulRespectfulReally InterestingSpaceshipsAlzheimerArkAlzheimer'sRaidersUndervalued Author:Mary Pipher
“I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.” PeopleTryingSeemsAmericaCultureDifficultInterestingTroubleForgottenErasAdmirationInnateSymbolicNorth AmericaStubbornness Author:William Gibson
“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.” ThinkingMenTryingKindArtPastRememberCultureForgetInterestingPoorCitiesStudyToo MuchStudentsPaintingNotesAll KindsOld ManMuseumsThickSculptureSpectatorsIntroductionInteresting ThingsTouristsOld WomanLooking For LoveRemembering The PastLoafersArt Students Author:Marvin L. Cohen
“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.” PeopleThinkingKindArtI CanFeelingsBodyAgeCultureBeliefProcessInterestingViewsAliveTraditionUglyGreekLoadPrincipalBullshitI'm AliveEnergizingRodin Author:John Coplans