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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.

Wendy Beckett

Agnes Martin often speaks of joy; she sees it as the desired condition of all life. Who would disagree with her?... No-one who has seriously spent time before an Agnes Martin, letting its peace communicate itself, receiving its inexplicable and ineffable happiness, has ever been disappointed. The work awes, not just with its delicacy, but with its vigor, and this power and visual interest is something that has to be experienced.

Wendy Beckett

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

Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett

Wendy Beckett

Born: February 25, 1930

Died: December 26, 2018 (aged 88)

Bio: Wendy Beckett, better known as Sister Wendy, was a British hermit, consecrated virgin, and art historian who became well known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art.

Known for:

The story of painting (1994)
Sister Wendy on Prayer (2007)
A Child's Book of Prayer in Art (1995)

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