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

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.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

Answers come when the questions that are being asked need to be answered.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.