“Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.” HeartMayCultureStyleMore MoneyTokyoKyotoOsaka Author:Vikas Swarup
“If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.” IfsAmericaCultureMy OwnToo MuchStyleAppreciateDesignerGood DesignStylishTacky Author:Tom Ford
“A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.” IfsHandsChoicesCultureEnergySocialStylePolicyLowsRelationWideAlternativesCapitalistConsumptionSocialistDegradingLife StyleEnergy PolicyHigh EnergySocial RelationsEnergy Consumption Author:Ivan Illich
“For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.” WayStillsI CanCultureNextGrowing UpGrowingFashionStyleBeatsHip HopNostalgiaHipsHopsNew WaysExpress Yourself Author:El-P
“Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.” ChoicesCultureStyleTasteGood Taste Author:Giorgio Armani
“Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.” MenDreamTurnsCultureCenturyStyleStandardsWesternConstructionEleganceJerseyGrandeurDumpGraveyardWasteland Author:Ada Louise Huxtable
“No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.” FirstsMayArtCertainCultureSimpleStyleComplexityMatureGlancesSymmetry Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!” StillsDifferentMovingUsedCultureLanguageStyleBasketballTransitionNew ThingsFood Culture Author:Yao Ming
“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsHas BeensRealCultureWonderImagineImpossibleGroupsStyleTenSingingYears AgoIndianSouthernSignalsElectronic MusicCockneysAmalgamation Author:Alan Arkin
“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.” WorldWayWellsArtFormCultureGrowsGrowing UpStyleGrewGrew UpDressesHip HopHipsHops Author:LeCrae
“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.” StillsFeelingsCultureLiteratureStyleCrimeMassMurderIgnorantPossessedUngratefulPopular CulturePoisoning Book:Letters of George Sand Source: Letters of George Sand
“In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.” Has BeensCultureThreeStreetsCenturyStyleTasteUnderstoodStructureArchitectureDefinedParisAcademicSophisticatedUrbanConsistencyAestheticsViolationRefinedExemplary Book:ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE? Source: ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?
“But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.” CultureFashionStyleRacistSignificancePrivilegedStereotypeGeneralizationAppropriationHigh Fashion Author:Amandla Stenberg
“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.” AmericaValuesCultureSilenceQualityStyleCommunicationDirectEastCharacteristicsGermanyPrivacyIndividualismDominantIntrovertRestraintAsiaFast PacedNoisyFinlandEast Asia Author:Laurie Helgoe