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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
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Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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 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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I always ignore money.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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