God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenthcentury has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
