"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 of music. It can’t exist without it."
― Steve Martin
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Art
More From Steve Martin
- "Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."
- "Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I’d do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled."
- "You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do."
More In Art
- "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."― Simone Weil
- "The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."― William Hazlitt
- "I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."― Norma Shearer