Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society you're funny.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge although with plenty of care and diligence.
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all...
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure for no man lives...
What beauty is I know not though it adheres to many things.
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...