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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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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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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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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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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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 did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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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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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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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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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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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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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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