John Updike
John Updike
John Hoyer Updikewas an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1932
CountryUnited States of America
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
artist brings destroying exist
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before and he does it without destroying something else
artistic future
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
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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 fiction.
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I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
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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 to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
according art gratuitous
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.
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Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
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In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.
art responsibility government
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
photography art substance
Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum.
art nature dare
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
art exercise men
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.
writing merit artistic
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.