Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson
Justin Brooks Atkinsonwas an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth28 November 1894
CityMelrose, MA
CountryUnited States of America
art real illumination
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.
justice long church
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
flaming knows song stand tower
Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.
democracy less war
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
beaten correct frank grammar learned library living needs none nor reader report truth writer
The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.
new-year memories holiday
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
spiritual enemy bureaucracy
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
thinking poetry-is
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
dream attitude sky
Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
people atheism age
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
sea land pirate
Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.
views justice growth
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
men risk dreamer
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
responsibility men perfect
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.