A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

More Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.