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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

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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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 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 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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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