“A characteristic of great works of art is that they persistently catch our attention and beckon us. It is like a piece of music we want to listen to ad infinitum or a book that we love re-reading — because one never exhausts what a great work has to give, whether it’s in the detail or the whole.”
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York from 1977 to 2008, in Rendez-Vous with Art, page 31