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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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Children
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I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
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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 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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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I always ignore money.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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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