Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
Kenneth TynanRead
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of Irish playwrights in revitalizing English theater.
Kenneth Tynan's quote highlights the belief that Irish playwrights hold a 'sacred duty' to infuse the English theater with creativity and vitality, countering the dullness and lack of expression that may prevail otherwise. It underscores the cultural responsibility of artists to enrich the artistic landscape and inspire audiences through their work.
In practice
When discussing the influence of playwrights at a cultural event.
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.
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.
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.
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