I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.