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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

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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Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I always ignore money.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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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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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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