Art Quote by Brooks Atkinson

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

— Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

— Brooks Atkinson

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

— Brooks Atkinson

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

— Brooks Atkinson

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.

— Brooks Atkinson

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

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

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

— Brooks Atkinson

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

The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.

— Brooks Atkinson

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