What did Pauline Kael mean by: In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA Copy
+ Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Reality, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ What this generation was bred to at television’s knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Generations, Political, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ What is getting older if it isn’t learning more ways that you’re vulnerable? Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Getting Older, vulnerable, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ If you’re afraid of movies that excite your senses, you’re afraid of movies. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Movie, Senses, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ A mistake in judgment isn’t fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Anxiety, Judgement, Mistake, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Critical, Tasks, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ Really, it’s not people who don’t understand us who drive us nuts—it’s when those who shouldn’t, do. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Nuts, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
+ The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Pauline Kael, Artist, Fool, 0 - Pauline Kael Film critic · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
