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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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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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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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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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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 just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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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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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I always ignore money.
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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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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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 think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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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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