Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and … - Wendy Beckett

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The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

Wendy Beckett

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

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Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

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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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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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Great art changes you.

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Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

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The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

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