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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
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Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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 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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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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 always ignore money.
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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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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 mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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