In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It is a depressing fact that Americans tend to confuse morality and art (to the detriment of both) and that, among the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by Pauline Kael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d42/pauline-kael-6910_art_he-bernardo-bertolucci-has-the-kind-of-t_441775.jpg)
