"The artist brings something into the world..." - Quote by John Updike
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
More by John Updike
“President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?”
“Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.”
“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”
More on Artists
“Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.”
“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”
“It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
More on Creation
“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”
“I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.”
“You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.”