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

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.

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.

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.

Great art changes you.

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

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

If you can't do what you really want to do, then do the next best thing!

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

There is thin line between smile and laughter.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.