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.

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.

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.

Total time spent together with effort yields the value of a product

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.