8 Quotes By Richard Eyre


The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.
Richard Eyre on faith

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
Richard Eyre on happiness

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.
Richard Eyre on happiness

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 on happiness

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 on imagination

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
Richard Eyre on poetry

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 on relationship

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 on science