There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.
— Steve Martin
I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.
— Steve Lacy
One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
— Steve Kanaly
My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.
— Steve Jones
Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all.
— Steve Erickson
'Homeland' was a sensation out of the gate in 2011, gathering acclaim and sweeping up Emmys, and the reason such shows are so overrated is because, unlike with other forms of popular art, success in TV is measured almost purely by how obsessive we become.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
— Steve Earle
My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.
— Steve Breen
There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country? The answer is simple. We no longer have manners to speak of.
— Steve Allen
Taekwondo, those are some major kickers right there. That's what they bring. That's all they do is the kicks. They don't have the punching and the ground but it's more of a kicking art than anything.
— Stephen Thompson
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
— Stephen Stills
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
— Stephen Sprouse
Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
— Stephen Sondheim
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
— Stephen Rea
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
— Stephen Kinzer
I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.
— Stephen Hough
In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'
— Steve Kazee
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.
— Steve Jurvetson
Directing is a tremendous art.
— Steve Guttenberg
For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.
Certainly, in college, I had no idea what I wanted to do, I studied art history and had a great time, but I didn't have any sort of career aspirations.
— Steve Ells
I express myself through my art.
— Steve Carr
The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.
— Steve Blank
Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.
— Sterling K. Brown
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
I am good at just looking in the kitchen and getting stuff on the table and keeping the mess minimal. There's an art to the drudgery.
— Stephen Malkmus
Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
A priest once said to me, 'Think of a priest going to the altar as you walk out on the stage.' I would hate to think that anyone thought I was coming to preach. But art and music open up things that you can't put into words. It's about bringing joy when you go out there.
I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
We go see theater, we take in art, because it makes us feel.
The concept of a 'job' is pretty recent. If you go back a few hundred years, everyone was either a slave or a serf, or living off slave or serf labor to pursue science or philosophy or art.
Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
My undergraduate degree was in art history! Raising money for Chipotle was really my MBA. The money for my first restaurant came from my dad, the second from mostly cash flow. The third was an SBA loan. After my dad invested $1.5 million to open a few more, he suggested I raise the money myself for the experience.
I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
— Steve Aoki
Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.
— Stephen Lang
That the best piece of art a person is capable of making is the one that only they could create.
— Stephen Karam
The Internet tempts us to think that because an email or a new website can be accessed in seconds that everything works at the same instant speed. Art is more like the growth of a plant. It needs time and space.
