“Humor is my default mode.”

John Updike

“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 w...”

John Updike

“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.”

John Updike

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

John Updike

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

John Updike