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Art Quotes by Steve Martin
- No art comes from the conscious mind.
- What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
- 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, opera, any kind…
- There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a…
- I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father…
- Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from…
- You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you…
- You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
- Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke
More Art Quotes
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
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- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov