“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”

“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”

“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

“Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.”