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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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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 inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – 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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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. – Austin OMalley

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows youre scared to death. – Earl Wilson

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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” – Howard Ikemoto

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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. – Clara Schumann

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