Her family, colleagues and generations of students will lovingly remember her vibrant personality, sharp wit and love of art, travel and life.
Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.
His art is a sustained exercise in irony and wit, a deliberate cooling of art's romantic heat.
He will be remembered for his exceptional wit, love and knowledge of art and books, his work with artists and photographers, and his own inimitable artwork.
Its chief exponents were Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas, who is generally considered the master satirist of his age, in Los sueños (1627; "Dreams"); and Baltasar Gracián, the theoretician of conceptismo, who codified its stylistic precepts in Agudeza y arte de ingenio (1642, enlarged 1648; "Wit and Art of Ingenuity").
In his new book Elements of Wit: Mastering the Art of Being Interesting, Errett collects the sharpest people of all time your Wildes, your Louis CKs, your Rebecca Northans in order to help people like me figure out how to seduce women.
In his new book Elements of Wit: Mastering the Art of Being Interesting, Errett collects the sharpest people of all time – your Wilde's, your Louis C.K.'s, your Rebecca Northan's – in order to help people like me figure out how to seduce women.
Their first reaction is what will go out into the world, and there's no such thing as a draft or work in progress, which is why there are so few genuinely great commentators, those who are not only able to tell us what's going on but do so with some form of wit and art.
Similarly, the wit of P-Orridge's art has often been overlooked for the outrageousness of its materials.
