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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
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Conceptual Artist
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Installation Artist
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Printmaker
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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 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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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 love art. It is uplifting.
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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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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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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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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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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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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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