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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

Damien Hirst

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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 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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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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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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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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As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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The idea is more important than the object.
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I have titles floating around in my head I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.
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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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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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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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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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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 think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
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I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
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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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