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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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 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 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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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.
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Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.
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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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Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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I love art. It is uplifting.
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