Art Quote by Bill Plympton

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an…

— Scott Avett

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response…

— Arthur Smith

Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a…

— Joe Bradley

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them,…

— John Grant

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

— Kevin Feige

I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to…

— John Currin

Its also insane to me that people can expect an artist to not be prone to the same fluctuations in emotion and mood that…

— Gabe Saporta

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

— Caitlin Rose

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

— Holly Near

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of…

— Robert Mankoff

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out…

— Agnes Repplier