I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.
A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being played. I think Oscar Wilde said that life is too important to be taken seriously.
Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
