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

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• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • See
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Ride

• We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Work
  • Art
  • Ocean

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Man

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• Photographing a cake can be art.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Cake
  • Photographing

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• 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
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Together
  • Criticism

• Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Great
  • Art

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

  

  David Brock
  • Women
  • Trying

• The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Single
  • Positive
  • Military

• 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
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Idiot