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

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

- Wendy Beckett

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…

- Wendy Beckett

Great art changes you.

- Wendy Beckett

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.

- Wendy Beckett

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

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

- Wendy Beckett

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

- Wendy Beckett

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. …

- Wendy Beckett