Ian Mcewan Quotes

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

I just have a lot off different influences.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

I love curating, because I'm lucky and privileged that I have a platform and I can share my discoveries with other people.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

Interpretive thinking, as an art form, is dying.

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music.

We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

[ My time and our common culture] it's what I'm photographing, and I'm very involved with that.

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.