Famous quotes containing the words comic, book and/or art:
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)
“I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)