The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before…

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else.

John Updike

Paris Review · 1977

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Artists Nature of art Art Creation

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1977

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John Updike

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Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

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