A Quote by John Baldessari

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

John Baldessari

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John Baldessari
American - Artist
Born: June 17, 1931

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Terry Pratchett

We're the court jesters of rock.

Kyle Gass

I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.

Madonna Ciccone

So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

Cindy Sherman

A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

Minimaks

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

Rick Riordan

I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced, coherent disharmony. That's one way to say it. And where if I keep working on it, to discover and struggle with new problems, I'll obliterate the ones I was working on. I could keep working on it, but it'd become something different. And I value what's here, at the moment.

Jessica Stockholder

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

Farah Khan

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. That was the thing about vaudeville: You didn't have to worry about the beginning and ends of these things.

Harmony Korine

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

Jim Gaffigan

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Saul Bellow

Class warfare always sounds good. Taking action against the rich and the powerful and making 'em pay for what they do, it always sounds good. But that's not the job of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court standing on the side of the American people? The Supreme Court adjudicates the law. The Supreme Court determines the constitutionality of things and other things. The Supreme Court's gotten way out of focus, in my opinion.

Rush Limbaugh

If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.

Jen Sincero

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

Marcus Buckingham

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