Pauline Kael Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• if you think it 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.

  Pauline Kael

  Thinking, Trying, May

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

• We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.

  Pauline Kael

  Perception, Criticism, Saws

• 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.

• 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

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