It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside. — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share
