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Never let money get in the way of an idea

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
Idea
Money
Ideas
Way
Never

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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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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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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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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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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 believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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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'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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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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