Quote by John Updike
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. Its delightful to distort size, to see something thats tiny as though it were vast. – Robert Morgan

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. – Michelangelo

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Pictures must not be too picturesque. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Were all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. Were also allowed to change or modify our opinions. – Jerry Saltz

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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. – William Shakespeare

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