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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.
Damien Hirst
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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
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Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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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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I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.
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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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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 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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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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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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