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Humor is my default mode.
John Updike
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 - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.
John Updike
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.
John Updike
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
John Updike