#public

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#generated #incapable #into #irresponsible #judging

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#public #quarrels #their

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#judgments #matter #only #opinions #private

Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. ↗

— Mel Ferrer

#general #general public #lee #liked #musician

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#be grateful #grateful #i #intelligent #public

The public's not stupid. ↗

— Rita Ora

#stupid

Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#public-private #age

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. ↗

— Keith David

#good #hurt #publicity