Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Pauline Kael Quotes

American - Critic | June 19, 1919 - September 3, 2001

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Motivational Door Ending Chance You

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

Art Trash Us Appetite Given

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

Hair Camera Feathers Him Head His

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

Day American Picture Talking Citizen

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Mistake Anxiety Too Much Judgment

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Down Him Signs Reverence Superior

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

Look Up Honest Like Made Movie

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Future Vision Art Culture Roots

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Book Injustice Might Just Written

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Advertising Rest Information Critic

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

Advertising Rest Information Critic

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

Great Art Appreciate Movies Trash

12 Next page Last

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Pauline Kael quotes