#ash

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#betraying #coin #critic #criticism #fashion

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#flashes #image #instant #never #only

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#car #lifeguard #wash

As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#always #football #football team #gone #i

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#feel #neurotic #still #time #would

Be classy. Anything but trashy. ↗