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But then architects don't build their own houses.

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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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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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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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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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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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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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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 suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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