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Steve Martin

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

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Steve Martin is saying that while entertainment can reach the level of art, its main goal is to entertain rather than to be art from the start. He thinks that trying to create something purely as art from the beginning is foolish because it misses the natural value of entertainment.

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