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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
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Conceptual Artist
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Installation Artist
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Printmaker
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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