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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – 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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Body
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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Food
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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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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is theyre trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke

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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther

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

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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them. – Jerry Saltz

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Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts. – Tony Visconti

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We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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I dont live in the past at all Im always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. – Brian Eno

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We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves. – Author Unknown

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