Brooks Atkinson Quotes
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
— Brooks Atkinson
Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.
— Brooks Atkinson
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
— Brooks Atkinson
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
— Brooks Atkinson
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
— Brooks Atkinson
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.
— Brooks Atkinson
Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
— Brooks Atkinson
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers.
— Brooks Atkinson
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
— Brooks Atkinson
There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.
— Brooks Atkinson
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
— Brooks Atkinson
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
— Brooks Atkinson
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
— Brooks Atkinson
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
— Brooks Atkinson
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
— Brooks Atkinson
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
— Brooks Atkinson
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
— Brooks Atkinson
I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.
— John Britt Daniel
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
— Brooks Atkinson
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
— Brooks Atkinson
The fatal futility of Fact.
— Henry James
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
— Brooks Atkinson
