"You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy."

-- Jerry Seinfeld

#Essence Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Crankiness Quotes

“A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.”
“A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.”
“There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.”
“A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm”
“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Source : Trewin Copplestone, Edgar Degas (1998). “Edgar Degas”, Gramercy Books

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