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

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 Japan…

- 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