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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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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
Damien Hirst
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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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
Damien Hirst
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.
Damien Hirst
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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