All great art is a visual form of prayer.

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.

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.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

A hug everyday mixed with just four sweet letters makes life joyful.

Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

I look like everyone else.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.