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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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I love art. It is uplifting.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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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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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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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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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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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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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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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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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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If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
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