Kenneth Tynan Quotes

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

There was an art to the male posterior. That's all there was to it.

I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Even virtue is fairer in a fair body.

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

The thing about legs is you're born with them. Anybody can go out and buy boobs. But you're either blessed with attractive legs or you're not. That's what makes them so sexy.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.