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

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.

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.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

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

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.