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

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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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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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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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