"The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful……" — Manny Farber
"The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste."
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18 Quotes by Manny Farber
Manny Farber has 18 quotes on this site.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes…
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke.…
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I have a great love of the actual.
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the…
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not,…
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach.…
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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of…
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the…
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is…
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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