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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
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say f off. But after a while you can get away with things.
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But then architects don't build their own houses.
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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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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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 can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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It's ridiculous what I do. I can't believe in it - but I have to.
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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.
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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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I don't really have a career plan.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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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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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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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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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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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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