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

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. – Erich Fromm

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. – Amy Lowell

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece. – Denis Waitley

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. – Roy Lichtenstein

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