Art Quote by Richard Eyre

“I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.”

Richard Eyre

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I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

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There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national…

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I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be a chemical…

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A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

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I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and…

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Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

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Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in…

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I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find…

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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of…

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I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop…

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