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

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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 always ignore money.
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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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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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 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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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.
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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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
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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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