Top 17 Wendy Beckett Quotes

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

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

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#3. All great art is a visual form of prayer.

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

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to full humanhood. But Rushdie talks throughout of making something sacred, whereas there is another kind of sacrality that exists of its own right.

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#8. 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.

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

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

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#11. 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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#12. Prejudice is always dangerous.

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#13. 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.

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#14. In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.

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#15. Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

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#16. 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.

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

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