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.

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 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.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

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

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