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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

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
Everyone
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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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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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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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I don't really have a career plan.
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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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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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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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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 you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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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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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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