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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Conceptual Artist
Film Director
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Installation Artist
Painter
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Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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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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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
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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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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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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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But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
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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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I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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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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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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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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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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