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

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

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

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.

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

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