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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