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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Installation Artist
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Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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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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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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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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 believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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