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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

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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Dead
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I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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I always ignore money.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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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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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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