“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Quoted in New York Post (29 February 1960)
Letters and interviews
“Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to challenge and fascinate me… Or perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor — emotional pain remembered in tranquillity.”
Statement to World Artists : 1950-1980 as quoted n "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" in The New York Times (18 November 2008)
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