Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
—Kenneth Tynan
Topics: Audiences
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
—Kenneth Tynan
Topics: Theater
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.
—Kenneth Tynan
Topics: Criticism
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
—Kenneth Tynan
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts, Criticism
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
—Kenneth Tynan
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
—Kenneth Tynan
Topics: Critics, Criticism
The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.
—Kenneth Tynan
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