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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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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. – Ansel Adams

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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. – Georges Rouault

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper

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I view art as an inspirational tool. – Thomas Kincade

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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