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The idea is more important than the object.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
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Printmaker
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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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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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.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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 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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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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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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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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.
Damien Hirst
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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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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