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Artists are like everybody else.

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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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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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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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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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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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 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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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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