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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
Painter
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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 realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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 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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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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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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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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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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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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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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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