J Home / Authors / John Updike Quotes by famous author John Updike to inspire perseverance Total Number of Quotes: 5 Art Baby Behind Boring Breathing Deep Default Gold Mode Playful Shoes Space Categories: arts humor Quotes by John Updike Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike Arts #Baby #Gold #Shoes What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike Arts #Breathing #Space #Spirit 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 Arts #Behind #Playful #Work 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 Arts #Art #Boring #Deep Humor is my default mode. John Updike Humor #Default #Mode Load More Quotes
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike Arts #Baby #Gold #Shoes
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike Arts #Breathing #Space #Spirit
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 Arts #Behind #Playful #Work
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 Arts #Art #Boring #Deep