“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.”

“I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.”

“Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.”

“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”

“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”

“The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.”

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

“The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.”

“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”