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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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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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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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 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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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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