"Critics are like eunuchs, they can tell you how, but the can't do it themselves."
Everybody's a critic. Said George Washington (after noting that conflict of stars with stripe, design-wise), when Betsy Ross delivered the first US flag to him:
Look at the colors you chose!
The best you could do I suppose.
A peppermint stripe with royal blue,
The same as the British colors too.
Now how will we tell whose side is who?
Look at the colors you chose!
Why couldn't it have been puce,
Lavender over chartreuse,
Or possibly some exotic shade
A delicate orange, mauve, or jade
Instead of the choice that has been made?
Why couldn't it have been possibly cinnamon?"
-- "Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America: the Early Years" (1961)
Betsy's reply:
Everybody wants to be an art director.
Everybody wants to call the shots.
Everybody wants to be a flag dissector
Changing all my stars to polka dots.
Everybody thinks that they're the final word
On what is strictly out and what is in!
Howdja like a flag that features fleur-de-lis
On ochre corrugated tin!
