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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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Damien Steven Hirst
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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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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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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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I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.
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I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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