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