Art Quote by Varun Grover Download Open image “Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.” — Varun Grover ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art form Comedy Dissent Humor Last Safety
I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well! — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected. — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no real need… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
