Famous quotes containing the words comic, book and/or art:
“What the Journal posits is not the tragic question, the Madmans question: Who am I?, but the comic question, the Bewildered Mans question: Am I? A comica comedian, thats what the Journal keeper is.”
—Roland Barthes (19151980)
“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)