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> [A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/a-work-of-art-is-great-to-the-extent-that-to-encounter-it-is-to-be/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

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## Other authors on Encounter

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-erik-pevernagie-688.jpg) Erik Pevernagie 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/encounter/erik-pevernagie/)

## More by Wendy Beckett

> [The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/the-experiential-test-of-whether-this-art-is-great-or-good-or-minor/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/there-is-no-life-without-work-anxieties-or-tensions-peace-is-not/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [Looking at art is one way of listening to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/looking-at-art-is-one-way-of-listening-to-god/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/we-were-created-to-be-fully-human-a-lifetime-effort-and-using-our/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [“Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/although-we-cannot-command-it-we-choose-joy-making-a-deliberate/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/god-never-sends-suffering-never-it-is-never-god-s-will-that-we-should/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/we-know-great-art-by-its-effect-on-us-if-we-are-prepared-to-look/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [“In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/in-grief-part-of-the-pain-comes-from-our-feeling-that-we-should-not/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [“This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/this-is-the-real-power-of-joy-to-make-us-certain-that-beneath-all/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/you-are-not-a-saint-because-you-keep-the-rules-and-are-blameless-you/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [All great art is a visual form of prayer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/all-great-art-is-a-visual-form-of-prayer/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [Great art changes you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/great-art-changes-you/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/the-dream-world-the-true-freedom-of-the-imagination-does-not-open-to/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/if-continually-people-look-and-look-and-always-come-away-enriched/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

> [A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-beckett/a-work-of-art-is-great-to-the-extent-that-to-encounter-it-is-to-be/)

[Wendy Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-beckett/)

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