Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

Art is the permanence of a civilization.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.

Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the humanitarians that I knew growing up in Derry whose influence steered me in the direction of some of the work that I have chosen in the past.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture - showing its color, its passion and its greatness - and one that captures much of my personal style.

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Great artists have no fatherland.

History is the study of what civilizations die from. Literature is the study of what civilizations live for.