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 didn't grow up thinking of movies as film or art but as movies something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I'm free. I just do what I want say what I want say how I feel and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way and I think people respect that.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

Death be not proud though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so. For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not poor death nor yet canst thou kill me.

I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists and I think people listen to music for different reasons and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music and some of it is things that might affect a person's day if not their life or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

We want to answer this classical question who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art or whatever we do including science or religion tried to answer that question.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make it possible for us to know if only imperfectly and for a little while what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I think in art but especially in films people are trying to confirm their own existences.

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

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem with each painting being a single stanza.

When I make art I think about its ability to connect with others to bring them into the process.