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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
Longer
Already
Dead
Children

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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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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 can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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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 think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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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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