“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921), Part V

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”