Art Quote by Richard Eyre Download Open image “The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.” — Richard Eyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Arts Arts Weapons Happiness Learning Understanding Weapons Weapons Happiness Weapons Understanding
The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They… — Agnes Gund Copy Share Image
The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at… — John D. Rockefeller III Copy Share Image
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring… — Jacques d'Amboise Copy Share Image
“The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
