"Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title."

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"Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Art, Creativity, Truth, Power, Life

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Life, Imitation, Reality

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Art, Blood, Strength, Creativity

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Ugly, Beauty, Charm, Morality

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

Voltaire, French Writer

Art, Government, Nation

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Art, Expression, Freedom, Creativity

"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Art, Music, Sorrow, Beauty, Contrast

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Art, Criticism, Principles, Folly

"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Art, Painting, Writing, Beauty, Expression

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."

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"I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with."

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"After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird."

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