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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
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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 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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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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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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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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