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Art Quotes by John Updike
- Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
- I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a…
- 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…
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.
- In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.
- We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough…
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
- Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring…
- A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov