“There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
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Famous Pauline Kael Quotes
Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies
Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies
“Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.”
Source: For Keeps
Source: Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969
Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays
Source: i lost it at the movies
Source: i lost it at the movies
Source: For Keeps
Source: Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991
“An artist must either give up art or develop.”
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
“In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.”
Source: For Keeps
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
“Trash has given us an appetite for art.”
Source: Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969