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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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Conceptual Artist
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Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
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I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.
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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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You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.
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Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.
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I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.
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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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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.
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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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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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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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When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.
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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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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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I love art. It is uplifting.
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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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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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