Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes
Marya Manneswas an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Sec."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
art men discovery
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.
artist sight ego
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
war artist vision
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
art thinking government
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.
art sometimes function
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
art successful skills
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
art effort age-and-youth
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained...
art effort age
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
across along bleed borders dread hearts ink judicial lines map men red scratched strangers turn watch
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red
busy difference extra full giant kidding tall
Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?
age american-journalist
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
american-journalist faucet leave listen
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
actual american-journalist great surest verbal
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
eye painting moments
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.