"The goal of an artist is to..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.”

“Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.”

“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.”

“Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.”

“Music is the poor man's Parnassus.”

“I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?”

“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”

“I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.”

“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”