Art Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

All Artists are Anarchists.

— George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

— George Bernard Shaw

All great art and literature is propaganda.

— George Bernard Shaw

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

— George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

— George Bernard Shaw

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an…

— George Bernard Shaw

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

— George Bernard Shaw

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

— George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

— George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

— George Bernard Shaw

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is…

— George Bernard Shaw

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven…

— George Bernard Shaw

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or…

— George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry…

— George Bernard Shaw

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de…

— George Bernard Shaw

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common…

— George Bernard Shaw

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from…

— George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry…

— George Bernard Shaw

I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at…

— George Bernard Shaw

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when…

— George Bernard Shaw

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has…

— George Bernard Shaw

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Vital art comes always from a cross between art and life: art being of one sex only, and quite sterile by itself.…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The world shown us in books, whether the books be confessed epics or professed gospels, or in codes, or in political orations,…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…

— George Bernard Shaw

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

— George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

— George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

— George Bernard Shaw

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by…

— George Bernard Shaw

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say…

— George Bernard Shaw