Dan Morgenstern Quotes

It’s wonderful to be hated by idiots.

- John Simon

Critic

· USA

• Hate
• Idiot
• Wonderful

a masterpiece doesn’t so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

- Arlene Croce

Critic

· USA

• Alive
• Excellence
• Genius

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

- Bernard Crick

Critic

· England

• Certainty
• Danger
• Desire

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

- Benjamin E. Mays

Critic

· USA

• Goal
• Lying
• Weight Loss

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

- Benjamin E. Mays

Critic

· USA

The Bible itself claims that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”.

- Craig Blomberg

Critic

• Lord

Energy and art go where they will.

- Jerry Saltz

Critic

• Art
• Energy

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

- Cyril Connolly

Critic

· England

• Green

One listens to one’s lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

- Alexander Woollcott

Critic

· USA

• Law
• Modern Life

Art is a self-replicating force.

- Jerry Saltz

Critic

• Art
• Force
• Self