Salvador Dalí on humor

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V

• Life & Death

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937