George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathanwas an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth14 February 1882
CountryUnited States of America
art sex imagination
Art is the sex of the imagination.
art criticism literature
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
art darkness criticism
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
wise artist mind
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
art sex imagination
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
music art mad
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
new-york sky crowds
All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.
love heart broken
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
men often-is yoke
The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
memories self-esteem philosophy
It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
sex heaven mud
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.
flower theatre doe
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
drama night theatre
Drama - what literature does at night.
men illusion convincing
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.