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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without m

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

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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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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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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, Id do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled. – Steve Martin

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

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I like that the art world isnt regulated. – Jerry Saltz

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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin

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