Kenneth Tynan Quotes
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Content)
"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Women)
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Complexity, Effort, Play, Writing)
"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Disease, Hollywood, Oysters)
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Art, Work, Artist, Understanding)
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Past, Play)
"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
(Related: Time, Drama, Theatre)
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Living, Past, Sense)
"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
- Kenneth Tynan
(Related: Neurosis)