“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."” WorldShouldHumansFactsUseLife IsCan DoHuman BeingsInfluenceTaughtEqualDespairWesternDoctrineLuxuryDestructiveFedsMortalityOverwhelmingLeisureContemplatingPrivilegedIndulgePlaywrightPointlessIndulge InAffluence Author: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.” HumansArtBodyFormEssentialsAbstractGlobesPointlessHuman FormAbstract ArtParts Of The BodyButtocks Author: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 from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.” WayHumansArtDifferentFactsCommonMankindSourceSpringDrawsChaosIdeologyDifferent WaysHuman ExperienceCoherence Book:Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings Source: Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings
