The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. Kenneth Tynan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. Kenneth Tynan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one. Kenneth Tynan Read Quote
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. Kenneth Tynan Read Quote
