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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 always ignore money.
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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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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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 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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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 love art. It is uplifting.
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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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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 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 can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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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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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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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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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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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