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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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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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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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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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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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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 liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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