"Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society"

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Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

Edward Burnett Tylor

#Art Quotes #Taken Quotes #Men Quotes

“You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.”
“In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you always. No cell phone required. No language required to communicate. All is there within you. Other parties have to end, but this one has the possibility of going on and on, for the rest of your life.”
“I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.”
“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
“After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.”
“One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.”

Source : "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.
“The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.”
“I think that I prefer to shoot characters even if they are not good people. I don't think that cinema is a place where you can do sentences like in a court.”

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