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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.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I always ignore money.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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