All
objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have
voices. They speak of their history and
interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
-- Camille Paglia
1947-, American
Author, Critic, Educator
If
everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding
it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious
of lacking culture. We would regard it as something
natural and would not make so much fuss about it.
And if we knew the real value of this word we would
be cultured enough not to give it so much
importance.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish
Artist
We
know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the
evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go
to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
-- George Steiner
1929-, French-born
American Critic, Novelist
For
the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite
labor, and search, and ranging through every corner
of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt
and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives
with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the
two noblest of things, which are sweetness and
light.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745,
Anglo-Irish Satirist
