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Artists are like everybody else.

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
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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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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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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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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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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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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