"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

-- John Updike

#Appreciation Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Art Quotes

“I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some power. Flying was, too, I guess.”
“You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?”
“Iâ€™d mentioned this odd wardrobe choice to Adrian a couple of weeks ago: â€œIsnâ€™t Dimitri hot?â€ Adrianâ€™s response hadnâ€™t been entirely unexpected: â€œWell, yeah, according to most women, at least.”
“You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.”
“An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”
“I have so many influences, I'm a big follower of fashion. I love fashion, because designers really find different reference points and really study up on different cultures.”
“Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.115

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