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" What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. "

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" There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. "

" I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving. "

" Great art picks up where nature ends. "

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy. "

" Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. "

" I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. "

Lorraine Hansberry

" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. "

" To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "

Oliver Goldsmith

" Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. "

" I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. "

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

" It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. "

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

" I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there. "

" But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. "

" The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

Saint Augustine

" The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code. "

" There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. "

" There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning. "

Constantin Brancusi

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created. "

" I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book. "

" Art is never finished, only abandoned. "

Leonardo da Vinci