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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.