“An artist must either give up art or develop.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
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Famous Pauline Kael Quotes
Source: i lost it at the movies
“Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.”
Source: For Keeps
“This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.”
Source: Hooked
Source: For Keeps
“In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.”
“A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
Source: For Keeps
Source: For Keeps
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“Her only flair is in her nostrils.”
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?”
Source: For Keeps
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
Source: For Keeps
Source: For Keeps
Source: For Keeps
Source: Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael
Source: The Citizen Kane book
“Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.”
Source: For Keeps
Source: For Keeps
“I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.”
Source: Conversations with Pauline Kael
“Sex is the great leveler, taste the great divider.”
Source: For Keeps
“The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new”
Source: For Keeps
Source: For Keeps
“What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.”
“The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“Great movies are rarely perfect movies.”
Source: For Keeps
“I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.”
Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies
“Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
Source: For Keeps
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
“Trash has given us an appetite for art.”
Source: Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969