You can't hurry love. We're not just talking about old art. And because Sensation was a huge hit in Britain and then toured the world, it became the official compilation of 1990s British art. You can spend a lifetime looking at a favourite artist's work, and over a lifetime is how it should be done - as a romance, a relationship. There's something about the big show that erases the moments of discovery, surprise, bafflement that make art live.
Art is difficult.
Not all art, not all art by the same person, can interest you in the same moment. An experience of art that is instant, quick, and directed by another's eye and taste is an experience not worth having. Art is worth giving time to, or it's not worth bothering with at all. More and more, we are bombarded by exhibitions that foster the opposite of a worthwhile experience of art. They turn art into a commodity.