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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

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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
Sometimes
Feels
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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 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 think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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I always ignore money.
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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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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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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