Art Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't…

— Jason Reitman

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

— Demetri Martin

“They trigger creativity, because they make us so vulnerable and open our heart to become its large self. Buddhist philosopher Joanna Macy says that…

— Matthew Fox

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is…

— David Walliams

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree…

— David Rees

“In light of all this, we’re now equipped to think about the relationship between laughter and humor. In any given comedic situation, humor precedes…

— Kevin Simler

“. . . a sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight--delight in noting life has its…

— Anonymous

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations…

— Sara Pascoe

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the…

— Robin Ince

“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live…

— Lynda Williams