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Damien Hirst Inspirational Quotes (66)

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I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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