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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.

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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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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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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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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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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 realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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