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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
Amazing
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Imagination
Art
Chainsaw
Twisted

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I love art. It is uplifting.
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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 sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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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 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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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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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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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 like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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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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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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