Steve Martin Quotes
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
Quotes to Explore
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Photographing a cake can be art.
Irving Penn
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Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.
Olivier Theyskens
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
F. Sionil Jose
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
Frances Mayes
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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
Yoko Ono
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Pablo Picasso
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When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.
John Tavener
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The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.
Eric Holder
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If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Lucy Liu
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker
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I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin