Famous quotes containing the words revolt of the, revolt, papier, popular and/or culture:
“this winter’s revolt of the unbellied trees
one reason being they’re all gnarled knees”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mâché. My salad had been used four or five times this week.”
—Peter Ruric, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Edgar G. Ulmer. Peter Alison (David Manners)
“The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races.... The economics of this musical esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)