Art Quotes

"Symbolism is the currency of social life."

"Ritual is frozen poetry in action."

"Symbols are the skeleton of social life."

"We are all performing our culture continuously."

"Symbols work because we agree they work."

"The body is a text written in the language of culture."

"Symbols work through indirection and suggestion, not direct statement."

"Art teaches us that truth is not always literal"

"Art is the exploration of possibility"

"The body is the text on which culture writes its meanings."

"In the dance, we see the culture made visible to the body."

"The tool reveals the culture; the weapon reveals the values; the ornament reveals the soul."

"Ambiguity is not a flaw in symbols—it is their greatest strength."

"Metaphor is how we make sense of the unmakeable sense of."

"Performance creates reality as much as it represents it."

"Symbols work precisely because they are inexhaustible in meaning."

"Performance is where intention meets interpretation."

"Performance is a way of asking questions about social order."

"Every symbol is a small cosmos containing the whole culture."

"Art is the expression of the soul of a culture."

"Culture is man's greatest achievement and greatest challenge."

"Art transcends cultural boundaries through emotional truth."

"Art is the conversion of subjective experience into objective form; it is how we make the internal external."

"Symbols gain their power from collective agreement and shared meaning."

"Body practices are a language through which we communicate social identity."

"Symbols work by evoking what they stand apart from."

"All communication is metaphor."

"Language is a recursive system that creates meaning."

"Art is the expression of the mind's relationship with reality."

"The art of cross-cultural understanding is much richer than we imagine."