“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.” PeopleWayPlayTogetherCultureSportsEnjoyRelaxLeisureAnother WayListening To MusicGratificationTime To Relax Author:Pope Francis
“The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.” EnoughCultureTraditionDifficultyCrisisLeisureCarrying On Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.” WholeCultureHousePeriodsClubsLondonBrokeLeisureGoing OutAcidBroke UpWorking All The Time Author:Boy George
“Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.” WellsEnoughCultureSinPoorRichTraditionDifficultyCrisisAcceptedEfficientLeisureVirtuousEfficiencyCompulsionCarrying On Author:Clement Greenberg
“Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.” IdeasRealCultureLiteratureEnergyWealthCreationPaintingFlowerArchitectureDustAtmosphereEngagedLeisureBeesFloatsAntsColonySurplusIncessantlyGreat LiteratureParthenon Author:Edith Wharton
“Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.” WorldLightCultureBornFindingsDirectWitLeisureHintsNew ThoughtPredecessors Book:Essays upon several moral subjects Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.” ArtAmericaCultureMaterialsFindingsRepublicLeisureOutletsProvisionAcquisitionMaterial Things Author:Fritz Kreisler