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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
Painter
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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 sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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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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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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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