Quote by Steve Martin
Theres a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important

Theres a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. Theres a lot of sex, you know, in art. Theres a lot of naked women and men, and theres intrigue, theres fakery. Its a real microcosm of the larger world. – Steve Martin

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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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I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like Letterman and The View, and Ive heard nice things about being able to do that. I really havent felt any negativity toward me or my music. – Steve Martin

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You know what your problem is, its that you havent seen enough movies – all of lifes riddles are answered in the movies. – Steve Martin

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Pictures must not be too picturesque. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art

All in the Family was intellectual it was art. – Carroll OConnor

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In an artwork youre always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. – Damien Hirst

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Art

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. – Edward Steichen

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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. – Samuel Johnson

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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. – George William Curtis

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There is no failure. Only feedback. – Robert Allen

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