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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

Damien Hirst

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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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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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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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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 can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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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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