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.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton
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I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
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Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.
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We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
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I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.
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The art of dressing is the art we all practice.
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Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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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.
