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

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.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

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.

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

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

All great art is a visual form of prayer.