Alice Meynell Quotes

Laughter is the music of life.

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

Art is the skin of the soul.

All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I express my thoughts through my music.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

I'm not interested in being famous or anything, but I'm definitely interested in expressing emotions, and acting and filmmaking can be great outlets for that. Filmmaking is an incredible art.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.