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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
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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I always ignore money.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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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 just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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