The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect … - Wendy Beckett

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I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.

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.

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