John Updike Quotes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is not only about angst.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Space is the breath of art.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

The aim of art is to create space.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.