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

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

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

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.

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

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.