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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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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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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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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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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 don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I always ignore money.
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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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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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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