Wendy Beckett Quotes

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• All great art is a visual form of prayer.
• 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.
• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
• Great art changes you.
• 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…
• Prejudice is always dangerous.
• All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have…
• The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
• The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of…
• 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…

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