The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
