"I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde film artist. My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets."
- Pauline Kael
KPFA Broadcast
January 1963
love this quote!
ReplyDeleteNice quote.
ReplyDeleteOn some level, I think we're all critics. Some people just do it better than others.