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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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 can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with 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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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 liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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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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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 think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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I always ignore money.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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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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