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

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

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.

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

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.

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