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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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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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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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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 think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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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 idea is more important than the object.
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