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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

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 don't really have a career plan.
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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.
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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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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 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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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 can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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