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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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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To send light into the darkness of mens hearts – such is the duty of the artist. – Robert Schumann

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Its clever, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank

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