“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.”

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

“The worst men often give the best advice.”

“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”