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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„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) -->
„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.
„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
„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
„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
„I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Spoken during a discussion on censorship, broadcast live on the BBC program BBC-3, (13 November 1965) Tynan was the first to say this word on British television, leading to an apology from the BBC and several motions in the House of Commons.
„Everyone is vulnerable who is at once gifted and gregarious.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Orson Welles" (1961), p. 297
„His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it.“
— Kenneth Tynan
"Bernard Shaw," p. 103
„A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Article in the New York Herald Tribune (17 February 1957)
„I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure.“
— 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)
„We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.“
— Kenneth Tynan
Review of Altona, by Jean-Paul Sartre (1961), p. 97
