“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.” PeopleTwoDifferentFormLiteratureForceHoursPayAttentionComedyGroupsPaintingPhotographyTragedyPay AttentionScreenplaysSoundtracks Author:Paula Patton
“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingStoriesComedyPaintingPoetPaintPainterNot SureShort StoryEstimation Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.” CommonComedyPaintingObservationImprovisation Author:Jonathan Winters
“I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.” PeopleProcessComedyMinutesPaintingMiles Author:Jonathan Winters
“I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.” WritingDoneKidsComedyPaintingBallsComedy Writing Author:Jonathan Winters
“Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.” PeopleThinkingArtFormWalksComedyPaintingAgreeMuseumsTowels Author:Jim Norton
“Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism.” GivingMeanHas BeensMadeTodayAbleFilmEffortAttitudeComedyObjectsPaintingMassResponseCollectivesDisplayGallerySurrealismReceptionSimultaneousSalonsSlapstick Author:Walter Benjamin
“From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.” KidsYoungStuffComedyPaintingDrawingBloodyTwistsPrivate PartsDrawing And Painting Author:Tom Six
“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.” PeopleGivingArtKidsFormWishHoursAbilityComedyPaintingBills Author:Godfrey