Richard Eyre Quotes

• 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

  Art, Eye, Empathy

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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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 the oyster.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, Self, Oysters

  "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Memories, Feelings, Humanity

  "Richard Eyre: Arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2011.

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• 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

  Live Life, Thinking, People

  "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

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• 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

  Pain, Grief, Character

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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 big cliff that we've all got to climb.

  Richard Eyre

  Thinking, World, Cliffs

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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.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, Giving Money, People

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