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Damien Hirst Inspirational Quotes (66)

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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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I always ignore money.
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I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
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