"The artist is the most important origin of a work, but the hands through which it passes are essential to the way in which it accrues value"

- Sarah Thornton

Source: Thornton, Sarah. Seven Days in the Art World. 2008. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-393-06722-4. pp. 10.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein

Source: Einstein, Albert. Quoted in URL http://home.online.no/~kamillao/quotes/einstein.html [Downloaded 2009-09-28]