"Looking at art is one way of listening to God."
"Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning."
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Source: Wendy Beckett (1995). “Meditations on peace”
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