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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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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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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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