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I always ignore money.

Damien Hirst

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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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Money
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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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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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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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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 like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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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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