A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
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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.Kenneth Tynan
Art and ideology often interact on each other but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence . . .
Kenneth Tynan
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan
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.
Kenneth Tynan
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.
Kenneth Tynan
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
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