Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Danger category:
Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Deception category:
-on Salvador Dali... 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. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Dreams category:
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Greatness category:
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. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Observation category:
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. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Prayer category:
All great art is a visual form of prayer. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Shock category:
-on Salvador Dali... He sought out the shocking: if spitting upon his dead mother's image would attract attention, he was a prolific and boastful spitter. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
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