I love a lot of the New York bands but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings stretch my imagination earn money.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding indeed no fiction.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson Walt Disney Charlie Chaplin people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

Well the fact is that one imagination is critically important and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects you are much more amenable to accepting to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

What I really have in my head my imagination my understanding of music I never really get that out.

My imagination my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time how passion can surprise and renew utterly failed me.

You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life problems and terrors.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

I mean yeah I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

For the most part comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other but most of the time they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.