"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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Art
More From Steve Martin
- "I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers."
- "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
- "I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic."
More In Art
- "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."― Gertrude Stein
- "History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."― Joseph Conrad
- "Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don’t want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn’t have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social ‘yak yaks.’"― Temple Grandin