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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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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Bristol
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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 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 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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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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