Art Quote by Jack White

I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes…

— Anonymous

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

— Giles Deacon

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

— Patricia Piccinini

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then…

— Jens Lekman

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

— John Zorn

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

— Giles Deacon

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the…

— Mike Duncan

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously.…

— Achille Castiglioni

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the…

— John Green

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and…

— David Foster Wallace