Wendy Beckett Quotes
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
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.
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.
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 the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
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 been.
If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.