Art Quote by Pauline Kael Download Open image “There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.” — Pauline Kael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Preference Tendencies Theory Turns
The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to our own… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even… — Thomas Mann 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
