#critic

It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#criticised #me #people #worry

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#get #ignore #making #most #poetry

The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy. Accordingly, we present to the rest of mankind, on a planet rife with suffering and tragedy, the spectacle of a clown civilization. Sustained on a clown diet rich in sugar and fat, we have developed a clown physiognomy. We dress like clowns. We move about a landscape filled with cartoon buildings in clownmobiles, absorbed in clownish activities. We fill our idle hours enjoying the canned antics of professional clowns... Death, when we acknowledge it, is just another pratfall on the boob tube. Bang! You're dead! ↗

— James Howard Kunstler

#clown #clowns #community #social-criticism #the-united-states

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#critics #dirty #films #foreign #lusty

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. ↗

— Walter Pater

#gather #help #ideas #instruments #may

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. ↗

— James Payn

#forgives #friend #good-natured #never #perhaps

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#answers #critics #forget #own #tend