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I love art. It is uplifting.

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
Uplifting
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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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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Never let money get in the way of an idea
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I don't really have a career plan.
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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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I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.
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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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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.
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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 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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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 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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The idea is more important than the object.
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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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I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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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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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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I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.
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