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Kenneth Tynan : Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Source Unknown : " I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Friedrich Nietzsche : " The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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George Bernard Shaw : " Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Clive James : " The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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D H Lawrence : " Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Kenneth Tynan : " Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Pauline Kael : " I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde film artist. My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Clement Greenberg : " The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Max Weber : " The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Harold Rosenberg : " An art mode, new or old, is for the creative mind essentially a point of beginning. Content is brought into being by the activity through which the artist translates the movement into himself. In such an appropriation, there is no difference between an ongoing movement and one that is finished. During the reign of Minimalism, a painter might realize the new through Impressionism. That art history has a schedule of continuous advances en masse is a fantasy of the historian. The shared syntax of art movements is constantly replaced by the sensibility and practice of individuals. The avant-garde art of yesterday is the only modern equivalent of an aesthetic tradition. The fading of the ideas of a movement does not mean that it can no longer be a stimulus to creation. At the very dawn of a movement, the work of its artists commences to replace the concept; instead of Cubism there appear Picasso, Braque, Gris. Compared to the activities to which they give rise, ideas in art have a brief life. In the last analysis, the vitality of art in our time depends on works produced by movements after they have died. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Henry David Thoreau : " The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves. " # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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Kenneth Tynan: " A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car." # Critics and Criticism

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Kenneth Tynan: " A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping." # Neurosis # Belief # Secrets

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Kenneth Tynan: " One would have thought that the notion of an impersonal critic was as patently absurd as that of an impersonal person: yet playwrights still cherish it as a sort of holy ideal. Admittedly, we all make mystiques: but this one is particularly wishful. The man who asks for an anonymous, impersonal criticism is trying to elevate criticism to the status of a science; whereas it is, I am afraid, only an art. The critic's business is to write readable English: the playwright's to write speakable English. Beyond that it is every man for himself. (p. 61)" # Critics and Criticism # Science and Scientists # Friends and Friendship

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Kenneth Tynan: " Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art." # Arts and Artists # Critics and Criticism # Life and Living

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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." # Ideology # Arts and Artists # Life and Living

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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." # Critics and Criticism # Theater # Entertainment

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Kenneth Tynan: " When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them." # Friends and Friendship

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Kenneth Tynan: " A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence." # Heroes and Heroism # Guilt # Villains

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Kenneth Tynan: " We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it." # Judgment and Judges

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Kenneth Tynan: " The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate." # Arts and Artists # Love # Life and Living

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