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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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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
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You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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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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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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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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