"I believe there is a relationship between having……" — Richard Eyre
"I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour."
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Richard Eyre
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21 Quotes by Richard Eyre
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I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's…
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We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's…
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I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in…
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Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable…
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I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the…
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I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
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If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be…
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Balance is the enemy of art.
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The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
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Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
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What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history -…
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I resent all organised religions.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some…
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both…
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Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
— Les Brown
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