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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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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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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 like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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 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'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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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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