A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work