Quote: Balance is the enemy of art. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: 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. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: Balance is the enemy of art. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: 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 the oyster. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity. [Richard Eyre]
Quote: In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed. [Richard Eyre]