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

Other quotes by John Updike

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Marriage
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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Thats the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind. – James Taylor

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Kinkades paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, Id love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkades work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open. – Jerry Saltz

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. – Brian Eno

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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. – Yoko Ono

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