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