George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

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

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

To this day I’m really not sure if I was playing Ziggy [Stardust] or if Ziggy was exaggerated aspects of my own personality. A fair amount of psychological baggage was undoubtedly coming out through the character. Because I felt awkward and nervous and inadequate with myself, it felt easier to be somebody else.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

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

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

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

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.