Art Quote by Pauline Kael Download Open image “The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.” — Pauline Kael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Medium Fool Make Fool Prerogative Prerogative Artist
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will… — Gerald Moor 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
