Humor is a scarecrow, says Jean Cocteau

… As far as I am concerned, there are no minor arts. Under the circumstances Offenbach charms me as much as Mozart.
Poetry is expressed as it pleases and it happens that the caricaturist is a poet and that laughter opens us up to the soul, as much as enthusiasm.
In short, the cartoonist is a scarecrow whose grotesque gesticulation attracts the birds instead of putting them to flight.
A scarecrow covered with birds, this is how I like to imagine the International Association of Humorists, which asks me for this preface.

Jean-Cocteau - 1958
  French poet, graphic designer, draftsman, playwright and filmmaker