David Hare Art Quotations

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.