Entertainment

DEFINITION

Art which is at least amusing.Quote: "By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. . . . I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time." Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish modern artist. A remark. "If we artists are to survive this period at all, we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers." Rico Lebrun (1900-1964), Italian-born American painter. "I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot." Steve Martin (1945-), American comedian, comic actor, writer, and collector. Also see cinema, dance, kitsch, popular culture, superficial, and theater.