Popular Culture Quotes - Page 4

• Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, School, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

  Bart Chilton

  People, Trying, Culture

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• Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms.

  Wally Olins

  Impact, Culture, Social

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• I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

  T Bone Burnett

  Culture, Attention, Pay

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

  Dawoud Bey

  Challenges, Culture, Kind

  "'Class Pictures' of social and emotional complexity". Interview with Maureen Post, onmilwaukee.com. May 13, 2009.

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• We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Roots, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

  Philip Yancey

  Confused, Community, Ordinary

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• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Unique, Years

  Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 17, 1977.

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• When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.

  Brenda Laurel

  Artist, People, Everyday

  Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press

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• Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion, Secret Love, Culture

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• Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

  Mason Cooley

  Seductive, Culture

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• An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Hands, Worry

  Herbert Read (2015). “The Politics of the Unpolitical”, p.145, Routledge

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• McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.

  Benjamin Barber

  Icons, Rocks, Style

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• If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Culture, Mixtures

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

  Brian Cox

  Important, Culture

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• Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

  Geena Davis

  Class, United States, Culture

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Teacher, Jobs, Stupid

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Destiny, Sick, House

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• I was a child of American popular culture. All I did as a kid was what I could get at the local supermarket or the dime store. Nothing else was seen. Plus what was on television, or the movie theatre. That was it.

  Robert Crumb

  Children, Kids, Theatre

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

  Barack Obama

  Media, People, Imagination

  "Michael Jackson's family has private service". www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 7, 2009.

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• Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dog, Liars, School

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• I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Halloween, Writing

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• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Drug Use

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Song, Artist, Would Be

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