+ Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Imagine, Movie, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ It’s a man’s world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Updike, Texture, Women, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you’re still in it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Updike, Country, Russia, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ How can you respect the world when you see it’s being run by a bunch of kids turned old? Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Kids, Running, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. Feraz Zeid, June 17, 2023December 12, 2023, John Updike, Moments, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Buckets, Water, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, John Updike, Heart, History, 0 - John Updike Writer
+ What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Updike, Appreciate, Art, Teacher, 0 - John Updike Writer
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
