George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

All art inspires me. Life inspires me. The art of life, thus my own art.

Truth exists in art.

I believe that all creative people have more than one passion, more than one creative talent.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

There is nothing new… everything has roots in the past.

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.