Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Wendy Beckett

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British presenter Wendy Beckett.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Wendy Mary Beckett, better known as Sister Wendy, was a British religious sister and art historian who became well known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art. Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience. In 1997 she made her debut on US public television and that same year The New York Times described her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television."

British - Presenter | Born: February 25, 1930

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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.

Wendy Beckett

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

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

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

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 God has put into your life.

Wendy Beckett

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

Wendy Beckett

Great art changes you.

Wendy Beckett

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

Wendy Beckett

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

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.

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 country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

Wendy Beckett

Prejudice is always dangerous.

Wendy Beckett

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

Wendy Beckett