Absurdity Quote by Mark Twain

The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.

— Sherwood Anderson

I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that absurdity in literature looks into a lack of meaning in some important and fundamental way. It allows us to ask questions…

— Laurie Foos

We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a…

— Norman Mailer

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

— Thomas Nagel

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

— Criss Jami

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson

“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

— Edith Sitwell

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

— Errol Morris

“This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. (I know…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness”

— Ahdaf Soueif