Quote by Steve Martin
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art,

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art youre an idiot. – Steve Martin

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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. – Steve Martin

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Art
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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. – Steve Martin

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Learning
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Im enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything thats considered artistic, theres a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It cant exist without it. – Steve Martin

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Art
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C. S. Lewis

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Art

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. – Honore de Balzac

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Art

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Art

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut. – Carly Fiorina

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Art

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. – Author Unknown

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My time is now. – John Turner

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There are always flowers for those who want to see them. – Henri Matisse

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