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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – 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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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali

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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow

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