"Art imitates Nature in this; not to..." - Quote by John Updike
Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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“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?”
“Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.”
“Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.”
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“Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.”
“Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.”
“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.”
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“The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.”
“There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.”
“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”