Pauline Kael Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Appreciate, Littles

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, School, Pleasure

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• Trash has given us an appetite for art.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Trash, Appetite

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

• Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Art, Expression

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Business, Independent

  Newsweek, December 24, 1973.

• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Pauline Kael

  Patience, Art, Waiting

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Art, Long

  Pauline Kael (1970). “Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969”, Marion Boyars

• An artist must either give up art or develop.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Giving Up, Artist

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

• Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Pieces, Television

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

• Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Too Much, Enough

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Preference, Tendencies

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

• I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Believe, Judgment

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

• The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Fighting, Lightning

  Pauline Kael (2011). “5001 Nights at the Movies”, p.221, Macmillan

• It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the educated, morality tends to mean social consciousness.

  Pauline Kael

  Depressing, Art, Mean

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

• Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Museums, Clown

  Pauline Kael (2011). “5001 Nights at the Movies”, p.511, Macmillan

• Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Independent, Bigs

• In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Past, Zest

  "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.

• Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Media, Differences

• He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Real

• We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral chaos. When the country is paralyzed, the popular culture may tell us why. After innocence, winners become losers. Movies are probably inuring us to corruption; the sellout is the hero-survivor for our times.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Hero

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Want Something, Minorities

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

• For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Twenties, Substitutes

  Pauline Kael (1991). “Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991”, E P Dutton

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