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Pauline Kael Quotes

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it’s that the good ones never make you feel virtuous Picture Quote #1

What is getting older if it isn’t learning more ways that you’re vulnerable? Picture Quote #1

In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow too much Picture Quote #1

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open Picture Quote #1

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself Picture Quote #1

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them Picture Quote #1

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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising Picture Quote #1

It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art Picture Quote #1

In show business there’s not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there’s no difference Picture Quote #1

What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism Picture Quote #1

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again Picture Quote #1

The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen Picture Quote #1

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I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn’t know Picture Quote #1

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images Picture Quote #1

There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one’s own preferences into a monomaniac theory Picture Quote #1

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker Picture Quote #1

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don’t know what it is propaganda for Picture Quote #1

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him Picture Quote #1

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If you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets Picture Quote #1

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have Picture Quote #1

If you’re afraid of movies that excite your senses, you’re afraid of movies Picture Quote #1

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again Picture Quote #1

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control Picture Quote #1

Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there’s nothing between the public and the advertisers Picture Quote #1

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If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence Picture Quote #1

We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn’t fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves Picture Quote #1

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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it’s that the good ones never make you feel virtuous (Pauline Kael Quotes) What is getting older if it isn’t learning more ways that you’re vulnerable? (Pauline Kael Quotes) In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow too much (Pauline Kael Quotes) Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open (Pauline Kael Quotes) The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself (Pauline Kael Quotes) 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 Quotes) In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising (Pauline Kael Quotes) It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art (Pauline Kael Quotes) In show business there’s not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there’s no difference (Pauline Kael Quotes) What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism (Pauline Kael Quotes) A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again (Pauline Kael Quotes) The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen (Pauline Kael Quotes) I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn’t know (Pauline Kael Quotes) We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images (Pauline Kael Quotes) There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one’s own preferences into a monomaniac theory (Pauline Kael Quotes) Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker (Pauline Kael Quotes) All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don’t know what it is propaganda for (Pauline Kael Quotes) I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him (Pauline Kael Quotes) If you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets (Pauline Kael Quotes) I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have (Pauline Kael Quotes) If you’re afraid of movies that excite your senses, you’re afraid of movies (Pauline Kael Quotes) The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again (Pauline Kael Quotes) Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control (Pauline Kael Quotes) Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there’s nothing between the public and the advertisers (Pauline Kael Quotes) If there’s anything to learn from the history of movies, it’s that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence (Pauline Kael Quotes) We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn’t fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves (Pauline Kael Quotes)

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