Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max EastmanDogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
Max EastmanI don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max EastmanA joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman