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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 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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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 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 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 always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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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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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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