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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – 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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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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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. – Malcolm Forbes

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – Anon.

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Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. – Rita Rudner

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes Ive been closer to him for that reason. – Elie Wiesel

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An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it. – Alan Reed

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