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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
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Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
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Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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