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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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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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Chainsaw
Twisted

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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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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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 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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I always ignore money.
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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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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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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 did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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