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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

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
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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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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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 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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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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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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 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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Artists are like everybody else.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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 can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
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I always ignore money.
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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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 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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