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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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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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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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 did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
Damien Hirst
But then architects don't build their own houses.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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I always ignore money.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
Damien Hirst
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
Damien Hirst
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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