Tag: culture

Quote of the Day

I’ve always believed that the divisions between high art and low art, between high culture, which really ought to be called 'sanctified culture,' and what’s sometimes called popular culture, but really ought to be called 'everyday culture' — the culture of anyone’s everyday life, the music I listen to, the movies you see, the advertisements that infuriate us and that sometimes we find so thrilling, so moving — I’ve always believed that these divisions are false. And, as a result of trying to make that argument over the years, I’ve also come to believe that these divisions are permanent — they can be denied, but they can never go away.

“I’ve always believed that the divisions between high art and low art, between high culture, which really ought to be called ‘sanctified culture,’ and what’s sometimes called popular culture, but really ought to be called ‘everyday culture’ — the culture of anyone’s everyday life, the music I listen to, the movies you see, the advertisements that infuriate us and that sometimes we find so thrilling, so moving — I’ve always believed that these divisions are false. And, as a result of trying to make that argument over the years, I’ve also come to believe that these divisions are permanent — they can be denied, but they can never go away.” — Greil Marcus, Commencement ceremony, School of Visual Arts, 2013

Quote of the Day

There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.

“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.” — Nigel Marsh, How to make work-life balance work