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

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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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I always feel like the arts there and I just see it, so its not really a lot of work. – Damien Hirst

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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. – Lionel Trilling

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