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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
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
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Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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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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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 think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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 sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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I always ignore money.
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