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

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

Wendy Beckett quotes: Prejudice is always dangerous.

Prejudice is always dangerous.

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.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor ... Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Wendy Beckett quotes: Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

Wendy Beckett quotes: 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.

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.

Wendy Beckett quotes: Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Wendy Beckett quotes: A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

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

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

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

Wendy Beckett quotes: All great art is a visual form of prayer.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

Wendy Beckett quotes: This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

Wendy Beckett quotes: The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

Wendy Beckett quotes: There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

Wendy Beckett quotes: 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.

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.