Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Max Eastman

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman