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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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Something
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Fear
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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 love art. It is uplifting.
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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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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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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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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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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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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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 have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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