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“As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.”

Art Might Today Form Suffering Culture Christianity Particular Hungry Visuals Appetite Stimulus Protestants Anorexia Sensory Visual Art Overload Wholesomeness

Author:John Walford

“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.”

Men Christian Culture Particular Birth Behavior Worship Shoes Jew Hats Remove Equipment Places Of Worship

Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION

Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION

“If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance; is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?”

Ifs Men Form Culture Natural Environment Particular Balance Plant Why Not Association Ecology Natural Environment Habitat

Author:Lewis Mumford

“With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.”

Art Sometimes Culture Bits Particular Creating Art Is Accidents Works Of Art Popular Culture

Author:Sydney Pollack

“I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.”

Believe Important Culture Students Particular

Author:Robert J. Dolan

“Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.”

Ifs Want Persons Matter Would Be Culture Crazy Particular Refuse Rational Sanity Judged Conventions Irrational Conform

Book:A Stranger in My Grave

Source: A Stranger in My Grave

“I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.”

Ifs Years Done Culture Forget Subjects Particular Involved Ten Tasks Exception Admiration Zero Reserves Forget It Get Involved

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. And to be sure: when you ask, there's always the possibility of a no on the other side of the request. If we don't allow for that no, we're not actually asking, we're either begging or demanding. But it is the fear of the no that keeps so many of our mouths sewn tightly shut.”

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that its the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.”

Firsts Art Important Facts Form Culture Conditions Particular First Time Performances Important Things Jazz Dedicated American Culture Exhibits Lincoln Center

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.”

Different Culture Situation Principles Particular Eternal Universal Manners Distinction Arbitrary Etiquette Different Times Different Cultures

Author:Judith Martin

“We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.”

Way Has Beens Suffering Dies Culture Particular Terrible Disease Terrible Things

Author:Alan Watts

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence