Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not... - John Updike
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"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."
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
"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."
"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."