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Type: Critic Quotes Category: American Critic Quotes Date of Birth: June 19, 1919 Date of Death: September 3, 2001 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Pauline Kael Related Authors: Leslie Fiedler Paul Weyrich Irving Babbitt Roger Ebert Robert McChesney Stanley Crouch Andrea Dworkin Lester Bangs |
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Pauline Kael A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Pauline Kael Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. Pauline Kael I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. Pauline Kael In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art. Pauline Kael Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.' Pauline Kael Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. Pauline Kael One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down. Pauline Kael The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. Pauline Kael This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Pauline Kael Trash has given us an appetite for art. Pauline Kael Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Pauline Kael |
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