“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
“It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.” CultureSinTakenImpossibleRight NowOneself Author:Michael Tolkin
“We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'” PeopleWayShouldBelieveCultureRight NowShould HaveEmpoweringGratificationInstantaneous Author:Tony Robbins
“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.” PeopleWritingIdeasMomentsCultureMemoriesTasteRight NowEmbraceAppealsEvolveRememberedAestheticCulture ChangeChanges Over Time Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtCultureViewsFocusAliveHappenedRight NowNostalgiaLensesSentimentalityUnderminingInvigoratingArt And CultureDishearteningHappy To Be Alive Author:Carrie Brownstein
“If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right now and thus face all the impediments to sort of dealing with those parts of their lives that, you know, that we did. So it would be not only silly but unrealistic to have a character saying that kind of stuff.” IfsKnowsWritingKindCharacterWould BeFacesCultureStuffFictionRight NowSillySentimentsHeartfeltWriting FictionImpediments Author:David Foster Wallace
“We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.” NeedsBelieveHumansMeanFallCultureI BelieveGrowsHuman BeingsRight NowHappenings Author:Myles Munroe
“I think that television lately has been extremely dark and, in some ways, cynical but I also think that people who are writing those shows probably feel exactly as I do - that sometimes the darkness of a story can highlight the light in a story. There's a lot of cynical stuff but I think it may be even more in movies now where you see so many movies about cynical and corrupted characters. That's the state of many movies right now but movies, television, all of culture, there's always going to be a battle between the stories that are cynical and stories that are hopeful.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingMayHas BeensSometimesStatesCharacterStoriesShowsLightCultureStuffDarkDarknessTelevisionRight NowBattleHopefulCynicalHighlights Author:Randall Wallace
“So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.” KindDifferentActionFilmCultureGamesFunYouthRight NowVideoGenreDifferent GenresYouth CultureMash Up Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Let's say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy this nation. I would create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military. It appears coincidentally that those are the very things that are happening right now.” PeopleMadeCountryWantedCultureHouseNationsWhitePrinciplesMilitaryMoralityRight NowHappeningsFinancialDivisionWhite HouseStabilityRidiculeFinancial Stability Author:Benjamin Carson
“Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.” KidsCultureRight NowDrugHip HopSellingHipsHopsRootedWrong ThingsSelling Drugs Author:Vince Staples
“Goodness, for me, has to start in my own backyard: find what's beautiful about where I am right now, rather than criticizing myself for what I'm not. We live in a culture where physical perfection and youth is revered, and so women over a certain age begin to feel irrelevant.” FeelsAgeBeautifulCertainCultureMy OwnYouthRight NowGoodnessPerfectionCriticizeIrrelevantBackyards Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.” ThinkingArtIdeasWholeSongCultureKnowingKeysBecomingRight NowLabelsBlogsDjsMoldingArt And CultureRosters Author:A-Trak
“Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.” FeelsPersonsAbleCultureResponsibilityRolesCoupleRight NowMy FriendsLike MePopular CultureRare Things Author:A-Trak
“I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.” IfsThinkingKindDifferentWould BeCultureMistakeMissingExampleRight NowScientistBasesCancerIllnessBoatBreastsMaking MistakesDifferent KindsBreast CancerPsychiatricGreat Scientist Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now is similar, as long as people have money, fun, and food, our government can do heinous, heinous things.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongGovernmentCultureFunCan DoRight NowConceptsBreadCircusBread And Circuses Author:Ian MacKaye
“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsChildrenStillsSelfGovernmentCultureLanguageTeachIssuesHonorRight NowProgramDignityImportancePrioritiesSelf WorthSovereigntyTreatiesSustainingTop PrioritiesBarak Obama Author:Leonard Peltier
“In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.” ThinkingWantMeanCultureOur LivesOne ThingRight NowNotionSpectrum Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.” ThinkingWorldArtCultureRight NowOur World Author:Frederick Busch
“It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.” ThinkingArtCultureBlackWhiteRight NowBlack And White Author:Parker Posey
“If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.” PeopleIfsCultureMillionsRight NowLike Me Author:M.I.A.
“We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.” Has BeensStoriesProblemCultureHavensRight NowVisuals Author:Julie Taymor
“What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.” NeedsWritingEndsCultureRight NowOptimismBending Author:Eric Heisserer
“It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force - but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.” PeopleKnowsStillsCultureForceRight NowHostile Author:Michael Nesmith
“Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.” NeedsWellsMeanWould BeCultureInterestingEnvironmentModernCircumstancesCivilizationRight NowFascinatedInteresting ThingsBerlin Author:Natalie Portman
“And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.” PeopleWorldSelfSufferingCultureFocusImpossibleRight NowThirdsFocusedThird WorldShowing UpWorld Suffering Author:Martin Sheen