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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
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Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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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 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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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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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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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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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