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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.

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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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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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.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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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 always ignore money.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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