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Letter "K" » Kenneth Tynan Quotes
«A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.»
«No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| About:
Theater
| Keywords:
connection, flourish, happening, sanely, theater, The Stage, umbilical
«The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| Keywords:
abstract art, aesthetically, buttocks, functional, globes, orifice
«Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
comprehensible, journalist, precise, straight
«A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.»
«The vengeful hag is played by Ingrid Bergman, which is like casting Eleanor Roosevelt as Lizzie Borden.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| Keywords:
Bergman, Borden, casting, Eleanor, Eleanor Roosevelt, hag, hags, Ingrid, Ingrid Bergman, vengeful
«A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
«A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.»
«The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.»
«I just stopped playing bitches on wheels and peoples' mothers. I have only a few more years to kick up my heels!»
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