Art Quote by Frances Harper

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the…

— Roberto Benigni

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of…

— Dawn Powell

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and…

— Raymond Chandler

Let's face it, comedy's a dead art form. Tragedy, now that's funny.

— Bender (The Cartoon Character