Kenneth Tynan citáty
Kenneth Tynan
Datum narození: 2. duben 1927
Datum úmrtí: 26. červenec 1980
Kenneth Tynan byl britský divadelní kritik.
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„That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
„Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
„I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
„People have always needed art: but why have they needed it?“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.
Review of The Necessity of Art (1959) by Ernest Fischer
„Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Context: Useless, of course, to point out that the genesis of good plays is hardly ever abstract; that it tends, on the contrary, to be something as concrete and casual as a glance intercepted, a remark overheard, or an insignificant news item buried at the bottom of page three. Yet it is by trivialities like these that the true playwright's blood is fired. They spur him to story-telling; they bring on the narrative fit that is his glory and his basic credential. Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist. Only the makings, of course: curiosity about people is merely the beginning of the road to the masterpiece: but if that curiosity is sustained you will find, when the rules have been mastered and the end has been reached, that a miracle has happened.
Pausing on the Stairs (1957)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2014 edition) -->
„How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly (1962), p. 117
„Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Orson Welles" (1953), p. 65
„When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Review of Victims of Duty by Eugène Ionesco (1960), p. 36
„What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Greta Garbo" (1954), p. 79
„All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Tennessee Williams" (1956), p. 97<!-- also in Curtains (1961) -->
„No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.“
— Kenneth Tynan
As quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith in The New York Times (9 January 1966)
„A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.“
— Kenneth Tynan
As quoted in "Critic Kenneth Tynan Has Mellowed But Is Still England's Stingingest Gadfly" by Godfrey Smith in The New York Times (9 January 1966)<!-- perhaps also The New York Times (1 December 1963 ? -->
