John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more...
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.